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Images- Greenpoint Brooklyn Greenpoint Savings Bank |
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architect |
Helmle, Huberty & Hudswell |
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location |
807 Manhattan Ave., SW cor. Calyer St. |
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date |
1908. |
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style |
neo-Roman |
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type |
Bank |
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Image: special thanks to Jolanta Zastocki. |
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notes |
Roman pomp under a pantheon dome, shingled
delightfully in a fish-scaled pattern in slate. The Pantheon in Rome was
similarly shingled but in bronze, stolen for valuable metal in medieval
times. This grand Doric-columned bank is of lime- stone over a granite
base. |
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| with thanks to "The AIA Guide to New York", |