Designated March 15, 2005 An outstanding example of a commercial structure executed in the Romanesque Revival style, the Offerman Building was constructed in two phases, between 1890 and 1893. Located on an irregularly-shaped lot, adjoining Fulton and Duffield Streets, it was commissioned by Henry Offerman, who made his fortune in the sugar industry, to serve […]
The A.I. Namm & Son Department Store building at 450-458 Fulton Street is the sole surviving portion of the important enterprise that once covered nearly one entire block. Adolph I. Namm was a Polish immigrant who transferred his Manhattan upholstery and embroidery trimmings business to Brooklyn in 1885 and expanded his business into a highly […]
Designated April 19, 1966 As an example of the Romanesque Revival, this fire-house on Jay Street is one of New York’s best and most striking architectural compositions. This building served as the Brooklyn Fire Headquarters until 1898, when Brooklyn was consolidated with Manhattan, at which time the headquarters were moved to Manhattan. The building still […]
Designated July 19. 1966 The General Post Office displays a wealth of skillfully blended Romanesque Revival and Renaissance Revival details. The older section of the building was begin in 1885 and completed in 1891; the original plans of Mifflin E. Bell were modified by William A. Freret, Bell’s successor as supervisory architect of the Treasury […]
Designated November 12, 1974 The restaurant Gage & Tollner had its beginnings in 1879 when Charles M. Gage opened an eating establishment at 302 Fulton Street. In 1880, Eugene Toller joined Gage and the restaurant was renamed. It moved to 372-372 Fulton Street in 1892. When Gage and Tollner retired in 1911, they sold the […]
The former First Free Congregational Church, with its simple, rectangular shape and temple front, is one of the few remaining examples of the vernacular Greek Revival building popular in the mid-nineteenth-century. The “Free” in the name refers to the policy of not charging a rental fee for its pews. The building has changed hands many […]
Designated April 24, 2001 Erected between c.1835 and 1847, these four houses are unusually intact survivors from the early nineteenth century residential neighborhood that once flourished on the blocks east of Brooklyn’s civic center. Moved two blocks to their present site in 1990, these houses were originally located on Johnson Street between Bridge and Lawrence […]
