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Montrose W. Morris, the architect of the
Renaissance, was active in Brooklyn's late 1800's real estate boom. When
Morris opened his office in 1883, his advertising technique was to design
and build his own residence in Brooklyn and open it to the public. One of
the visitors was developer Louis F. Seitz who commissioned an apartment
house on property Seitz owned on Nostrand Avenue. Known as the Alhambra,
the new building so pleased Seitz that he commissioned Morris to design
two additional apartment houses, the Renaissance and the Imperial. These
three apartment buildings were among the most prestigious and impressive
multiple-family residences in Brooklyn.
An architect, died April 14, 1916, at his home in the Borough of Brooklyn, New York, aged fifty-five. He was born at Hempstead, Long Island, New York. He designed the Brevoort Savings Bank in Brooklyn and many large apartment houses and residences in that borough. |
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