The 19th Police Precinct Station House and Stable form a highly-visible, well-preserved example of the finely-detailed Romanesque Revival police precinct complexes that established a characteristic public presence in the neighborhoods of Brooklyn in the late nineteenth century. The 19th, erected in 1891-92, was one of several station house complexes designed by architect and engineer George Ingram and constructed as part of a building campaign initiated in 1886. Ingram developed the nearly-standard plan for the Brooklyn police station complexes, in which the stable, cell block, and lodging rooms are located in a wing attached to the precinct house.
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The Neighborhood
Greenpoint
Spurred by a period of economic growth and an influx of European immigrants during the 1850s, more than a dozen shipbuilding firms turned the neighborhood into a major shipbuilding center. While shipbuilding declined after the Civil War, Greenpoint’s other industrial enterprises, which included porcelain making, glass making, and...
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