Designated May 23, 1989 The Wonder Wheel, which incorporates twenty-four passenger cars of which sixteen slide along serpentine tracks, was invented by Charles Herman of New York as an improvement upon G.W.G. Ferris’s giant wheel erected for the famous Chicago World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893. Manufactured by the Eccentric Ferris Wheel Amusement Company for Herman […]
Designated December 19, 2000 Built in 1920, the Studebaker Building is one of the few automobile showrooms remaining on Brooklyn’s once thriving Automobile Row, the stretch of Bedford Avenue running north and south from Fulton Street to Empire Boulevard in Crown Heights. Designed by New York-based architects Tooker and Marsh, the neo-Gothic style building is […]
The refined Grecian Shelter, originally called the Croquet Shelter, is a masterpiece of neo-Classical architecture. The flowing rhythm of twenty-eight marble columns with square piers at the corners, supporting a full ornate terracotta entablature, evokes poetic memories of the Grecian temple and the grandeur of classical antiquity. Located on the Parkside Avenue border of Prospect […]
Designated March 19, 1968 This two-and-one-half-story Greek Revival frame house, with later Italianate embellishments, dates from the first quarter of the nineteenth century. An ornate iron fence encloses the corner lot, and a flight of wooden steps projects from the front of the house.
Designated March 19, 1974 St. Bartholomew’s Church, near Grant Square in Crown Heights, was designed by Brooklyn architect George P. Chappell. A romanesque Revival church executed in red brick with a rough-faced red granite base, its most picturesque features include a wide gabel containing a large, round-arched, stained-glass window and a curved projection at the […]
Designated March 23, 1976 The Stoothoff-Baxter-Kouwenhoven House is named from a succession of families who occupied it from the time of its construction until the 1920s. The wood frame Dutch Colonial building type is quite different from those of Manhattan and the Hudson River Valley, where a masonry tradition prevailed. A shingled dwelling, this house […]
Designated March 23, 1982 The South Congregational Church is a brick structure enhanced by a series of recessed arches expressive of the finest and most sophisticated early Romanesque Revival designs of the pre-Civil War period. An addition, built in 1889 for use as a ladies’ parlor and Sunday school, was designed in the Richardsonian Romanesque […]
Designated October 28, 1981 St. Mary’s Church is a beautiful Gothic Revival structure reminiscent of an English rural parish church. Built in 1858, it was designed by a relatively unknown architect, Richard T. Auchmuty, in accordance with the religious philosophy of ecclesiology. This movement laid out a strict set of rules for the design of […]
Designated November 19, 1966 Located in a small park in Greenpoint is this crescent-shaped pavilion consisting of an open arcade with a small building at each end. In detail the Shelter Pavilion reminds us of the Grand Trianon at Versailles with its coupled columns and the arrangement of windows in the end pavilions. This park […]
Designated October 16, 1973 The Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Memorial Arch, dedicated to the men who fought in the Union forces during the Civil War, is located on the southern side of the oval in the Grand Army Plaza. John Hemingway Duncan, who later was the architect of Grant’s Tomb on Riverside Drive, won the one […]
