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New York
Architecture Images- Williamsburg Brooklyn 178 Meserole St. |
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architect |
unknown |
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location |
178 Meserole Street, bet. Grahame and Humboldt Aves. S side, Williamsburg. |
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ca. 1880s |
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style |
Renaissance Revival |
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construction |
wood |
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Apartment Building |
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notes |
Exuberant, painted wood tenements -two of the city's best. "Tenement" is perjorative today; in fact it describes a walk-up apartment house that covers most of its building site. Here the light in the back rooms is minimal, but the visible architecture is magnificent. A quite incredibly rare surviving example of the type of decorative cladding that once adorned all such timber frame buildings in Brooklyn. |
