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Images- Park Slope, Brooklyn Ansonia Court / originally Ansonia Clock Company Factory |
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architect |
Hurley & Farinella, architects. Zion & Breen, landscape architects. |
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location |
420 12th St., bet. Seventh and Eighth Aves. |
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date |
1881. Remodeled, 1982 |
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style |
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type |
Factory |
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construction |
brick |
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notes |
Here
1,500 workers toiled in the world’s largest clock factory. The brick
functionalist tradition in 19th-century industrial building forms a
handsome low-key envelope for apartments surrounding a central landscaped
garden court. |
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| with thanks to "The AIA Guide to New York", |