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395 Washington Avenue

nobody@flickr.com (Emilio Guerra) — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 05:42:48 -0800

Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United StatesNo. 395, a handsome French Second Empire style house built about 1876 by Thomas H. Norris, is one of the few freestanding nineteenth-century residences remaining on Washington Avenue. Constructed of brick, the house is two stories high with a mansard third floor. The central round-arched entrance is protected by a portico with paired columns and-modillioned roof cornice, and the entrance bay projects slightly from the plane of the facade. Double windows at either side of the entrance at both the first and second floors, have corbeled sills and cap-molded lintels. The lintels at the first floor windows have been shaved. A broad segmental-arched window with a cap molding at the first floor above the entrance is enhanced with lattice-work side blinds. Above the modillioned roof cornice, the slate mansard is pierced by a central triple window dormer with pediment and flanking segmental-arched dormers. The Greene Avenue facade features central one-story high polygonal bay with modillioned cornice. The central window of the bay has been bricked in. Three segmental-arched dormers pierce the mansard and two chimneys rise above the cornice on the side of the house. The other side elevation, on the south, is treated in a similar manner to the Greene Avenue facade but it does not have a polygonal bay.

355 and 357 Washington Avenue

nobody@flickr.com (Emilio Guerra) — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 05:41:16 -0800

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Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United StatesNos. 355-357 are a pair of extremely unusual Italianate frame houses built about 1860 and possibly designed by Ebenezer L. Roberts. The two-and-one-half story frame houses set on brick basements are sheathed with the original clapboard siding. The square-headed windows are enframed with corbeled sills, paneled pilasters, and bracketed cap molded lintels. The main entrances, approached by wooden stoops, are shaded by porticos with squared columns. Narrow sidelights enframe the original wood and glazed doors. The bracketed cornice is enhanced by a fascia pierced by diminutive windows with shouldered corners. There are remnants of nineteenth-century iron railings at the front gardens. Shutters remain at the parlor-floor windows of No. 355.

361 Washington Avenue (Henry Offerman House)

nobody@flickr.com (Emilio Guerra) — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 05:41:53 -0800

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Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United StatesNo. 361, a large, impressive brick residence with stone and terra-cotta trim, was built bout 1888 for Henry Offerman in a transitional Queen Anne/neo-Renaissance style. The massing of the house is "L"-shaped with the entrance bay set well back from the planeof the facade, thus creating a three-bay pavilion to the left. A three-sided bay rises two stories above a rusticated stone base in front of the pavilion. The basement windows are square-headed with smooth stone enframements and keystones. Above the basement the facade material changes to brick. The parlor-floor windows have segmental arches with keystones and stone enframements keyed to the brickwork. The second floor windows are square-headed with keystones and keyed stone enframements. A full cornice and balustrade crown the bay. Behind the balustrade, the third floor facade is set back and pierced by three windows similar to those of the second floor. The brackets of the roof cornice are linked by classical swags. A steep, asymmetrical mansard with dormers crowns the facade. An imposing stone stoop leads to a platform covered by a wooden portico in front of the arched main entrance. The windows above the entrance are treated in the same manner as those of the pavilion. The facade is further distinguished by stone bands, terra-cotta bands, plaques, and quoins. An impressive railing encloses the areaway.Henry Offerman was the treasurer of the Havermeyer & Elder Sugar Refinery in Williamsburg. C. Henry Offerman, probably Henry's son also lived in this house. He was a drygoods merchant who was responsible for the construction of the Romanesque Revival style Offerman Building at Fulton and Duffield Streets.

361 Washington Avenue (Henry Offerman House)

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353 Washington Avenue

nobody@flickr.com (Emilio Guerra) — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 05:40:56 -0800

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Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United StatesNo. 353 was built about 1860-61 as one of a pair with No. 351. Possibly designed by Ebenezer L. Roberts, it is a simple brick Italianate house, three stories high with square-headed windows and eye-brow lintels. The parlor floor is shaded by a handsome porch with four columns carrying segmental arches. The porch roof is finished with a cornice molding and broad dentils. Behind the porch are two floor-length windows with flush segmental-arched lintels. The round-arched entrance is enframed by an architrave molding and still has its original double doors . Brackets, modillions, and sawtooth work enhance the roof cornice. The southern elevation of the house displays a two-story polygonal bay at the rear. The original cast-iron porch railings still remain as does an early areaway fence.

417 Washington Avenue

nobody@flickr.com (Emilio Guerra) — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 05:44:10 -0800

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Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United StatesNo. 417 is a freestanding, three-story frame French Second Empire style house built about 1860. Sided with clapboards, the walls are pierced by square-headed windows with crosseted architrave moldings. The dormers in the slate mansard have segmental-arched windows with eared lintels. The cornice with a paneled frieze is carried on delicate paired brackets. The half-circle porch which protects the main entrance and one parlor-floor window was probably added at the end of the nineteenth century. Its two Doric columns carry a dentilled roof with a handsome spindle sunscreen.

353 Washington Avenue

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395 Washington Avenue

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417 Washington Avenue

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417 Washington Avenue

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431 Washington Avenue

nobody@flickr.com (Emilio Guerra) — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 05:45:13 -0800

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Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United StatesNo. 431 is a three-story brick neo-Federal town house built about 1915. The main entrance to the house is on the south side of the building, a plan similar to the von Glahn residence at No. 367. The ivy which covers most of the house obscures almost all of the details. Round-arch windows accent the ground floors, while the upper floors have flat arches. A two-story extension at the rear of the house projects for one bay into the side yard which also serves as a driveway leading to the two-story brick garage at the rear of the property.

395 Washington Avenue

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355 and 357 Washington Avenue

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395 Washington Avenue

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417 Washington Avenue

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Emmanuel Baptist Church

nobody@flickr.com (Emilio Guerra) — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 05:30:47 -0800

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Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United StatesEmmanuel Baptist Church, with its square twin towers, resembles a small French cathedral. This imposing structure, monumental in appearance, was inspired by Romanesque and early Gothic prototypes. It occupies a corner lot, and its two richly decorated principal elevations are fully visible from a distance and can be appreciated to the full. The somber and stolid character of this late Nineteenth Century stone edifice is relieved by a varied and fanciful use of carved ornament and structural forms, creating an outstanding example of ecclesiastical architecture.The Church was organized in 1881, end its construction program was completed in three stages. Before the Chapel was finished in 1883, early services were held in the nearby Adelphi Academy Chapel. The Church, sited North and South on the property with its entrance facing South on Lafayette Avenue., was dedicated in 1887 . The New Church School Building adjacent to and west of the front entrance was dedicated in 1927.The impressive front elevation is skillfully organized. The twin towers which flank the center section have massive stepped buttresses at the corners which recede as they rise and terminate at the solid parapet walls which crown the towers. Vertically, the towers are divided into five sections, each separated by a band course. The base is plain. The second and third sections each have two round arched windows. The fourth section has a colonnade of arches supported on short columns. Separated by clustered shafts* the belfry has three high, narrow arches with two windows placed one above each other within them. Corbelling enriches the cornice below the parapet wall.Four dominant elements make up the center section of the front elevation. Three arched and pedimented portals comprise the main entrance at the base. A huge pointed-arch window is centered in the middle section above the doors and a low arcade, with pediment above it, crowns the front. Two engaged columns, which rest on corbels at the spring line of the arch of the; window, rise up to the arcade and anchor the ends of the gable. The triple portal is majestic in seal and quality. Each double doorway is flanked by paired banded column with handsome capitals.The wooden doors have superb curvilinear-strap hinges. The tympanum ever the central doorway contains a beautiful bas-relief of Christ blessing the children. Carved bands decorate the arches over the doorways, and the gables above them arc crowned with largo carved finials. The four stained glass windows-, in the large arch above the doors, are separated by Gothic shafts which support two arches with round windows above them. They., in turn, support a larger rose window and two small round windows with trefoils all bound together by stone tracery. In the diapered surface of the gable crowning the building is a bas-relief of John the Baptist. Crockets decorate the coping of the pediment, and it is crowned by a large finial.The east elevation of the Church, anchored between the square tower at the South and the Chapel at the North, has five windows. Separating the windows arc large stepped buttresses which are stepped back as they rise and terminate just below the parapet wall, under the eave of the steeply pitched roof. Superbly carved gargoyles project out from the tops of the buttresses. Between the buttresses the windows are separated by a center column and are-flanked by columns. They are each surmounted by a small rose window In the upper part of the arch and are crowned by a large gable with finial.The Chapel, now known as the Emmanuel Christian Center, is located on St. James Place at the northeasterly extremity of the property. The three-story former Chapel flanked by a tower and turrets is core reminiscent of a chateau than a cathedral. With its free use of Romanesque and Gothic forms and details it is decidedly Victorian Gothic in character. This striking facade is dominated by a very large pointed-arch window centered in a high gabled wall. The window arch rising above an ornamented banc course at the second floor,, contains five narrow stained glass windows at second floor levels a corbelled band course and the main window filling the upper portion of the arch, has tracery of unusual quality. At street level, the doorway, placed left of center, is deeply recessed in a pointed arch. Here double doors, with leaded transom above, are flanked by paired and engaged columns. At the right of the doorway and centered in the smooth faced sandstone is a triple window with pointed arches and leaded sash, between engaged columns, also deeply recessed. A narrow platform with three steps leads up to the door.The New Church School Building adjoining the front to the west is a dignified two and one-half story structure dedicated in 1927. Solidly constructed of smooth faced stone laid up in random ashlar, it blends very well in character with the main Church.The entrance is set back in the corner of a square forecourt, retained by a low wall at the sidewalk. The doorway, sheltered by a steeply pitched roof a stoutly built porch, adds a quaint note of medieval Character of the building. On the second floor of the wing abutting the street, is a triple window set in a gable ornamented with crockets and an attractive finial. It is a very handsome feature silhouetted against the slate covered roof.The Landmarks Preservation Commission recognizes that the Landmark on the property in question (and the Landmark Site) is wholly used for religious and directly related charitable purposes by Emmanuel Baptist Church and that the needs of the Emmanuel Baptist Church for such uses may change in the years ahead, entailing alterations in the existing structures or the creation of other structures on the Landmark Site. By this designation of the Landmark above described and the Landmark Site on which it is located, it is not intended to freeze the structure in its present state or to prevent future appropriate alterations needed to meet changed requirements of use for religious and directly related charitable purposes. The Commission believes it has the obligation and, indeed, it has the desire to cooperate with owners of Landmarks who may wish to make changes in their properties. In this connection the Commission wishes to state at this time that it recognizes that the Emmanuel Baptist Church may want to erect new buildings on its grounds in the future. The Commission recognizes that the Emmanuel Baptist Church may also wish to make exterior alterations to its existing buildings. The Commission locks forward to working with the representatives of the Emmanuel Baptist Church when the Church desires to erect new buildings on its grounds or to bake exterior alterations on its existing buildings.- From the 1968 NYCLPC Landmark Designation Report

Emmanuel Baptist Church

nobody@flickr.com (Emilio Guerra) — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 05:31:01 -0800

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Emmanuel Baptist Church

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Emmanuel Baptist Church

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Pratt Institute Faculty Rowhouses

nobody@flickr.com (Emilio Guerra) — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 05:25:28 -0800

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Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United StatesThe Pratt Institute Faculty Rowhouses are a cluster of 27 dwellings located at 220-234 Willoughby Avenue, 171-185 Steuben Street, and 172-186 Emerson Place. Built in 1907, they were designed in a Colonial Revival style by architect Hobart A. Walker. The houses, situated at the northeast corner of the Pratt Institute campus,, were commissioned by the institute to meet its expanding needs.Pratt Institute was founded by Charles Pratt for the training of artisans, foremen, designers, draftsmen, and other technicians. The school was an outgrowth of Pratt's interest in manual training and his belief that the best way to help others was to teach them how to help themselves. The type of technical training established at Pratt was unprecedented in the United States at that time.Charles Pratt was born in Watertown, Massachusetts. In 1851 he moved to New York City and worked for the firm of Schenck & Downing, dealers in paints and oils. He joined the firm of Reynolds, Devoe & Pratt, which manufactured and sold pdint and related products in 1854. In 1867, Pratt established the firm of Charles Pratt & Co. with the intention of marketing a less flamable kerosene for lighting, one that would have a flashpoint of more than 100 degrees F. "Pratt's Astral Oil" gained a worldwide reputation, and the firm began to manufacture tools, cans, petroleum barrels, and similar products. The Pratt Manufacturing Co. was founded to produce sulphuric acids and other chemicals used in petroleum refining. Pratt's business interests were acquired by John D. Rockefeller of Standard Oil in 1874. At that time Pratt's refineries had a capacity of 1500 barrels of oil a day and were regarded as the most sucessful in the country. Pratt remained with the company and quickly became a major force at Standard Oil.Pratt, whose philanthropic interests were wide ranging, not only founded the Pratt Institute and its Free Library but also endowed the Adelphi Academy in Brooklyn, Amherst College, and the University of Rochester* He built the Astral Apartments, a model tenement development in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, near his oil refineries, and gave $100,000 towards the construction of Clinton Hill's Emmanuel Baptist Church, a designated New York City Landmark. Pratt had moved into the Clinton Hill area in the 1870s, building his large mansion at 252 Clinton Avenue in 1875. He also bestowed houses in the neighborhood as wedding presents for his sons, and all were built on Clinton Avenue after Charles Pratt's death in 1891.Pratt Institute opened on October 17, 1887, with a drawing class of twelve students. From these modest beginnings, the school rapidly expanded its departments, facilities and student body. Consequently, it was logical that the school should wish to provide residential accommodations for its staff on a site convenient to the campus, on land which Pratt Institute had purchased some fifteen years earlier. The commission for the houses was given to Hobart A. Walker.Walker, a specialist in residential design, began his architectural practice in 1895. Other known commissions are the late Romanesque Revival carriage house for J. Henry Alexandre at 173 East 73rd Street, Manhattan; the Colonial Revival Ralph H. Wilson residence at 162 Argyle Road in the Prospect Park South Historic District in Brooklyn; and the neo-Jacobean William H. Burger residence at 443 Clinton Avenue in the Clinton Hill Historic District in Brooklyn. Walker's choice of a Colonial Revival style for the Pratt rowhouses is both characteristic of his work and reflects the popular taste in residential architecture of the period. While more commonly used in freestanding houses, here the style is used to successful effect in a rowhouse design.The 27 rowhouses are clustered in three groups with the fronts of the houses facing the streets and the rears facing a center garden divided by two alleyways, Each house has a small front yard enclosed by an iron fence. Each row of two-and-one-half-story red brick houses has two alternating house types, one with a peaked stuccoed gable, the other with a stepped gable. Paired stoops lined by railings lead to entrances with paneled double doors.Above the doors are windows with diamond-paned sash set below dentil courses and stone lintels. Adjacent to each entrance is a two story, three-sided window bay. Square panels are placed below the windows. The sash at the second floor level are diamond paned, and the bay is surmounted by a dentil course and molding. The use of such sash and window bays is characteristic of the Colonial Revival style. At the attic story the gables are set in front of sloping roofs. .The stuccoed, peaked gables have paired windows outlined by wood framing. The stepped gables have paired windows set below common arched tympana with foliate panels. Such stepped gables are based on Dutch Colonial sources, and their use adds an especially picturesque note to the design. The side walls of the end houses in the rows are pierced by rectangular window openings which have diamond-paned sash at the second floor. The walls terminate in stepped parapets, echoing the form of the front gables, at the roofline. The rears of the houses are visible from the alleyways. Each has a small brick-faced two-story win)', with a small entrance vestibule.This picturesque group of houses is an excellent example of Colonial Revival design as adapted to rowhouse architecture. Designed by Hobart A. Walker, the houses are characteristic of his residential work. Built by the Pratt Institute to serve its expanding needs, the houses are still an important element of the Pratt Campus.- From the 1981 NYCLPC Landmark Designation Report