the Architectural Magic of Park Slope
1 Comments Published by Cedric Benetti on Saturday, July 4, 2009 at 7/04/2009 09:48:00 PM.
The Park Slope District, centering about the Grand Army Plaza entrance to Prospect Park at the intersection of Flatbush Avenue and Eastern Parkway, has been since the mid-nineteenth century Brooklyn's "Gold Coast." In the quiet streets off the plaza are rows of residences that rival the mansions on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue. A somber-hued wonderland of finials, pinnacles, pediments, towers, turrets, bay windows, stoops, and porticoes, filled with richly imaginative brick dwellings such as the ones on Carroll Street and Montgomery Place. The mansions, churches, and clubs that still remain, and the remarkably varied row houses form one of the most fascinating and architecturally rich neighborhoods in all of Brooklyn.
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Looks like a foreign land.