Tag: Suzanne Spellen

There was a time when Downtown Brooklyn’s shopping district had anything and everything one would ...

If you are a fan of the cinematic world of wealthy Gilded Age people on both sides of the Atlantic O...

Thanksgiving is now a national holiday that evokes tables loaded with food, autumnal colors, and fri...

The idea of a magnificent bridge to cross the East River and join Brooklyn and Manhattan was propose...

Home decoration was all the rage in the late 19th century. With the Industrial Revolution in England...

In the latter part of the 19th century, when ladies and gentlemen of the upper classes visited frien...

People have lived on Brooklyn’s Atlantic Avenue almost as long as there has been an Atlantic Avenu...

Thanks to Charles Pratt, the wealthiest man in Brooklyn, Clinton Avenue became a Gold Coast of mansi...

Sweets have been with us almost since the dawn of time. Mankind long ago figured out that honey, as ...

The architecture and decorative arts of the late 19th century were greatly influenced by the Aesthet...