History Underfoot: Flooring in the 19th Century Home
Apr 1, 2019 · By the last decade of the 19th century, and well into the 20th, hardwood floors became the norm for all new construction. Plain strips of tongue and groove flooring, usually in oak, was now throughout most custom made and spec houses, in hallways, ground floors, and upper floors. Most parlor floors enjoyed parquet floors, usually with a ...
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Victorian Bathroom: A Quick History of the Bathroom
Nov 28, 2016 · Rogers’ bathrooms coincided with the inventions of another plumbing legend, his former boss, Solomon Willard, who is credited with the American invention of hot air central heating. The two features would come together 50 years later in the late Victorian bathroom. Late 19th century bathroom at the Codman House.
Court Nixes Sale of Bed Stuy's Dangler Mansion Site
Oct 9, 2024 · In a dramatic development, a Kings County Supreme Court judge in September rejected the sale of 441 Willoughby Avenue in Bed Stuy, the former site of the Jacob Dangler mansion, by its nonprofit owner to developer Tomer Erlich. The latter controversially demolished the historic French Gothic Revival building in 2022 as it was in the process of ...
Construction Wrapping Up at Brooklyn Tower
02/07/2024 0. Work is almost complete on the borough’s first supertall, The Brooklyn Tower, with facade installation wrapping up on the building’s double-height plinth and tenants and homeowners already taking up residence in the skyscraper that towers over it. On Tuesday, workers at 9 Dekalb Avenue were busy in the still-under construction ...
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Everything You Need to Know About Italianate Architecture
Apr 4, 2016 · Italianate style in Brooklyn. The mid 1800s — the age of the Brooklyn brownstone — was an architectural era that defines the city to this day. The neighborhoods of Brooklyn Heights, Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens, Boerum Hill, Fort Greene and Clinton Hill are still teeming with Italianate brownstones. The pure Italianate brownstone with its ...
Public Art Exhibit Celebrating Dreams Opens in Fort Greene
Oct 10, 2024 · An art exhibition that celebrates dreams and gives the public a place to contemplate them through sculpture and interactive features has opened in The Plaza at 300 Ashland in Fort Greene. Cosmologyscape, commissioned by Creative Time for its 50th anniversary, was created by artists Alisha B. Wormsley …
DOT Mulls Capping BQE to Connect Communities
10/11/2024 1. By Ben Brachfeld, amNY. City officials on Wednesday for the first time raised the possibility of capping portions of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway using federal dollars meant to bridge communities divided by urban highways. The proposal is in its very earliest stages but could ultimately see parts of the BQE situated in open-cut ...