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01. Originally George U. Tompers house, 1890 Ditmas Ave. 1904. Architect: Arlington Isham. A stately Shingle Style/Colonial Revival mansion with steeply shingled roofs and a corner tower. The vast porch has an Italianate cornice and Tuscan columns. Seven years later Tompers purchased the Roman temple at 125 Buckingham Rd. [AIA] |
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10. Originally Maurice Minton House, 1510 Albemarle Rd. 1900. Architect: John J. Petit. A stately mansion with a grand conservatory and stable. The latter's huge-scale Composite columns support the roof in the manner of many Roman buildings, such as the Temple of Vesta, where old columns got a new hat too small for them. [AIA] |
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11. Originally Francis M. Crafts House, 1423 Albemarle Rd. 1899. A veritable Queen Anne gem: shingled, gabled, with a bump here and a shimmy there. It reeks of romance. (What a shame there is a modern apartment building growing out of the roof.) [AIA] |
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12. Originally William A. Norwood House, 143 Buckingham Rd. 1906. Architect: Walter S. Cassin. A re-revival of the Italian Villa style best exemplified in Brooklyn at the Litchfield Mansion (1857) in Prospect Park. [AIA] |
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13. Originally Frederick S. Kolle House, 131 Buckingham Rd. 1902-1903. Architect: Petit & Green. This wears Japanese fancy dress of a sophisticated sort on a stucco body. Sticks and structs, corbels and brackets, give a timber-structuralist look to what is a rather plain box underneath. Alvord's advertisement in Country Life described the interior as "a faithful reflection of the dainty Japanese art from which American is learning so much." [AIA] |
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14. Originally George U. Tompers house, 125 Buckingham Rd. 1911. Architect: Brun & Hauser. Corinthian columns and finely scaled slapboard. An Americanized Roman temple as seen through Renaissance eyes. [AIA] |
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15. Originally John S. Eakins House, 1306 Albemerle Rd. 1905. Architect: John J. Petit. The Shingle Style with a Colonial Revival, Tuscan-colonnaded porch. The house house has been reclad with aluminum siding, a hideous mistake, particularly obvious on the round corner tower. [AIA] |
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16. Originally G. Gale House, 1305 Albemarle Rd. 1905. Architect: H.B. Moore. A well-preserved Classical Revival house, with eccentric second-story balconies behind the main colonnade...similar to a way to Harry Truman's efforts at that other White House. [AIA] |
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20. 242 Rugby Road (house). ca. 1890. An exceptional Shingle Style house with a polygonal onion-domed tower. The porch is incised into the building's volumne. Most neighbors in these precincts present a typical columned, projecting Colonial Revival porch. [AIA] |
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26. Originally Herman Goetze House, 156 Stratford Rd. 1905. Architect: George Hitchings. Four-columned Roman temple with a Palladian-windowed bedroom in the pediment. There are elegant Corinthian columns and pilasters, narrow clapboard, and stone quoins simulated in wood. [AIA] |
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27. This is the first of the ones taken directly with a digital camera. In this batch a Nikon 950. |
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34. With all those bars I wouldn't want to be in this one with a fire. |
