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Images- Greenpoint Brooklyn The Astral Apartments |
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architect |
Lamb & Rich. |
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location |
184 Franklin St., bet. Java and India Sts. E side. |
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date |
1885-1886. |
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style |
Apartment Building |
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type |
Queen Anne |
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Image: special thanks to Jolanta Zastocki. |
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notes |
Commissioned by Charles Pratt as housing for his kerosene refinery
workers, by the same architects who created his Pratt Institute Main
Building. This many-entried block was patterned after the Peabody
Apartments in London. Alfred Tredway White had initiated such housing
experiments in Brooklyn at Riverside in Brooklyn Heights and the Tower
Home Apartments in Cobble Hill. Here we see patterned brickwork, rock-face
brownstone arches and lintels, and structural steel storefronts with the
rivets themselves as decoration. Milton Street: This rich block between Franklin Street and Manhattan Avenue is crowned on axis by St. Anthony's Church. It sums up the finest urban values of Greenpoint, here reaching the urbane. |
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| with thanks to "The AIA Guide to New York", |