Designated October 25, 2011 The Rundbogenstil building at 40 Greene Avenue, originally named the Church of the Redeemer, was erected c.1864 for the Fourth Universalist Society possibly to the design of the architect Rembrandt Lockwood. The brownstone-fronted building was enlarged with the addition of an apse and steeple before its dedication as the new home […]
Designated November 20, 2007 Dating from 1878, the Flatbush District No. 1 School is an important link to the years in which Flatbush was transformed from an agricultural village into a major suburb. John Y. Culyer was a locally prominent civil engineer and landscape architect who was the chief engineer and superintendent of Brooklyn’s Prospect […]
The First German Baptist Church, erected in 1866-69 to the designs of Julius Boekel, is a significant reminder of the evolving character of the Lower East Side and an excellent example of the Rundbogenstil style of architecture. The building’s Rundbogenstil design incorporates such typical German Romanesque features as roughly coursed stone facings, large round-arched openings, […]
The building is a rare surviving example of the industrial structures that once occupied much of the far western section of Greenwich Village. The structure’s multi-story construction, open floor plans, and large window openings were characteristic of the urban industrial loft building typology, while the façade’s regular grid of vertical and horizontal elements, elaborate brick […]
The design combines elements of the Rundbogenstil and the Renaissance Revival and neo-Grec styles. The three-bay facade is articulated as a grid formed by continuous piers and intermediate cornices. This building ended its service as a police station in 1974, and has been used and owned since 1981 by Hope Community, Inc. Today, with its […]
The midblock station house, five stories high above a basement, was constructed with a cross-shaped plan with one-bay wings and is faced in red brick and gray granite with contrasting buff-colored stone detail. The design combines elements of the Rundbogenstil and the Renaissance Revival and neo-Grec styles. The three-bay main facade, articulated as a grid […]
Designated December 11, 1990 These buildings were designed in a round arched utilitarian style related to the German Rundbogenstil and incorporate Romanesque and Renaissance Revival details. Each of the individual units of the 130-132 West 18th Street building has a tripartite triumphal arch composition which focuses on a central bifurcated Renaissance arch at the second […]
