CONTEMPORARY NY
PS015-03.jpg (81142 bytes) New York Architecture Images-  Park Slope, Brooklyn

Originally Thomas Adams, Jr., House Landmark

architect

C. P. H. Gilbert. 

location

119 Eighth / Ave., NE cor. Carroll St.

date

1888. 

style

Romanesque Revival

type

House  

construction

rock-face red sandstone and Roman brick.

This, and the adjacent matching house at 115 Eighth Avenue, are rock-face red sandstone and Roman brick. The Carroll Street arch is worthy of Henry H. Richardson, incised with naturalistic bas-reliefs, and supported by clusters of Romanesque-capped columns. These are major Romanesque Revival buildings.

 

 

 
 
   

 

 

contact

nyc-architecture.com

  with thanks to "The AIA Guide to New York",