George and Susan Elkins, Their House, and the Really Big Meadow
Imagine Central Brooklyn as it looked in the decades before the Civil War. The neighborhoods we call...
Tag: Suzanne Spellen
How Brooklyn’s First Free Library Became the Brooklyn Museum
Many of the great museums of the world started out as the private collections of very wealthy people...
The Lost Crown Heights Mansion of a Typewriter Tycoon
Editor’s note: This story originally ran in 2014 and has been updated. You can read the previous p...
City Pride: The Making of Brooklyn Borough Hall
From modest beginnings, the building we know today as Brooklyn Borough Hall is the result of years o...
How Charles Pratt’s Morris Building Company Beautified Brooklyn
A side project of the richest man in Brooklyn in the 19th century, the Morris Building Company devel...
Suzanne Spellen’s Tales of Brooklyn History and Architecture in 2024
Historian, preservationist, and longtime Brownstoner columnist Suzanne Spellen penned enthralling ta...
A Masterpiece of Education: Flatbush’s Erasmus Hall Academy and High School
When the Dutch and then the English established settlements and towns in Brooklyn in the late 1600s,...
How Innovator Robert Gair Built an Empire of Boxes in Dumbo
When asked to list the important inventors in our history, we generally forget the people who came u...
Cohn Brothers: Prolific Architects of Brooklyn’s Jazz Age Apartment Buildings
By the beginning of the 1920s, it was clear to those interested in New York City's housing patterns ...
Albert Korber and the Business of the Artful Home
From the first time a caveman or woman drew pictures on the walls and brought some flowers into the ...
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