Architecture 101: Caroline Ladd Pratt House

Photo from Forgotten NY

We weren’t able to make the Clinton Hill house tour this year, but from what we gather the Caroline Ladd Pratt House, at 229 Clinton Avenue, is always a highlight. One of four homes in the area built by the wealthy oil magnate for his sons, this brick mansion was originally known as the Frederic B. Pratt House when it was finished in 1898. The building’s architects, Babb, Cook & Willard, also designed the house for George Dupont Pratt at 245 Clinton Avenue. Described as a “consumately suave essay in neo-Georgian vein of Beaux-Arts residential design” by architectural historian Francis Morrone, the house is distinguished by, among other things, its collonaded and trellised pergola, ground-floor Palladian window and a top-floor cartouche with female head.
Morrone’s Books [Francis Morrone]