New York
Architecture Images- Park Slope, Brooklyn Ansonia Court / originally Ansonia Clock Company Factory |
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architect |
Hurley & Farinella, architects. Zion & Breen, landscape architects. |
location |
420 12th St., bet. Seventh and Eighth Aves. |
date |
1881. Remodeled, 1982 |
style |
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type |
Factory |
construction |
brick |
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", |