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New York Architecture
Images- Park Slope, Brooklyn 14th
Regiment Armory, N.Y National Guard
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architect
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William
A. Mundell. |
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location
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1402
Eighth Ave., bet. 14th and 15th Sts. W side. |
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date
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1895. |
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style
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Romanesque Revival
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type
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Government |
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construction
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brick |
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Picturesque
massing, including battered walls, machicolations, and other heroic brick
detailing, makes this a special event among the rows of brownstones. Here
stands a tower where boiling oil might be poured on mythical attackers.
The statue of the doughboy remembers World War I (1923, Anton Scaaf).
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contact
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nyc-architecture.com
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with thanks to "The AIA Guide to
New York", |
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