Landmark Status for Two Downtown Buildings

On March 15th, the city Landmarks Preservation Commission announced that two buildings in Downtown Brooklyn had been awarded landmark designation, reports Brooklyn Papers. The Romanesque Revival building at 505-513 Fulton St. (pictured), which was built in 1890 by Henry Offerman as a warehouse and department store, and a neo-Classical limestone building 450-474 Fulton St., at the corner of Hoyt Street, which was built in 1924 as a dry goods store, and later was Namm’s department store, will both be preserved. Both buildings dodged what Brooklyn Heights Association governor Meredith Hamilton saw as a rapidly closing window in light of the Downtown Brooklyn Plan, which seeks to replace many of the older buildings with new skyscrapers. The designations were the result of coordinated efforts by the Brooklyn Heights Association, the Municipal Arts Society and other neighborhood and preservation groups.
BHA Gets 2 Downtown Buildings Landmarked [Brooklyn Papers]
Offerman Building [LPC]