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Crown Heights’ architecture is incredibly intact, displaying an astonishing variety of brownstones, row houses, wood frame structures, free-standing mansions, as well as first-class educational and religious institutions. Homes from the mid-19th century lead to the bravura mansions of a later generation which were then succeeded by some of the most lovely and detailed rowhouses in Brooklyn. Many extraordinary and rightly-renowned architects, including Henry Ives Cobb, Montrose Morris, J.C. Cady, George C. Chapell and Russell Sturgis designed an array of buildings for the neighborhood. Homes range in style from early Italianate to Romanesque Revival, feature a wide mix of designs and treatments and make for a district that is both visually stimulating and rich with history. Even the elevator apartments which replaced some of the mansions were designed by notable architects in the Tudor Revival, Mediterranean and Art Deco styles. This is truly a neighborhood of architectural elegance and excellence.
Historic Districts Council 2022 http://hdc.org/hdc-across-nyc/brooklyn/deserving-designated/crown-heights-north
Crown heights North was also one of 6 neighborhoods to celebrate in 2015- http://hdc.org/program-events/six-to-celebrate http://www.brooklyneagle.com/articles/2015/2/18/fresh-landmarking-push-crown-heights-north |
