Tag: history

A Look at Brooklyn, then and now. In 1953, the prominent Brooklyn based critic, Louis Mumford, wr...

Read Part 1, Part 2, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, and Part 7 of this story. In the early 1890’s, the...

Read Part 1, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, and Part 7 of this story. Captain William Tumbridge wa...

Next Tuesday, April 10th, the Landmarks Preservation Commission will hear a request to add a new v...

Read Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, and Part 7 of this story. The story of the Hotel St. G...

Green-Wood Cemetery's purchase of the McGovern Florist building just hit public records, and the d...

(Illustration: The Keeper's Lodge, Green-Wood, from Green-Wood Illustrated, 1847) Green-Wood ...

We missed the Brooklyn Daily story yesterday about Green-Wood Cemetery's pending purchase of of th...

One of the great things about architecture is that one’s works can stand well past the lifetime of...

Great architecture is a timeless and wonderful part of the human experience. Like any fine art and t...