CONTEMPORARY NY
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246-252 Hancock St.

architect

Montrose W. Morris

location

246-252 Hancock Street , bet. Marcy and  Tompkins Aves. S side.   

date

1880s.

style

Shingle Style  Richardsonian Romanesque

construction

brick and stone

type

House
 
 

notes

terra-cotta, stained glass, elliptical arches, and Byzantine columns, mansarded and pedimented against the sky; a "terrace," in the English sense, that is greater than the sum of its parts.

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