MAS Proposed Downtown Landmark #13

Where: 25 Elm Place
When: 1899
Why: Loesser’s was once one of the most elegant stores in Brooklyn. At the turn of the century, Francis Kimball designed a monumental new store building facing onto Elm Place. Although altered on the lower floors, the bulding retains much of Kimball’s brick and terra cotta detail, notably in its tall arcades. Kimball was one of the leading architects in America at the time and designed two other major buildings in Brooklyn – the Montauk Club and Emanuel Baptist Church. Co-joined just north of the Kimball Building remains an earlier small commercial building with Romanesque details.
Architecturally Significant Buildings [Municipal Arts Society] GMAP