
Conservation Work & Houses
brooklyn


46 Sidney Place
Brooklyn Heights
Conservation of the exterior and restoration of the interior of an 1842 Federal Style three-story and basement townhouse in the Brooklyn Heights Historic District.


42 So. Portland Avenue
Fort Greene, Brooklyn
Conservation of the exterior and restoration of the interior of an 1864 Italianate Style three-story and basement townhouse in the Fort Greene Historic District. Built by Lawrence Kane as part of a row of six townhouses with brownstone facades and ornamentation.


68 State Street
Brooklyn Heights
Conservation of the exterior and restoration of the interior of a 19th century three-story and basement townhouse in the Brooklyn Heights Historic District.


138 State Street
Brooklyn Heights
Conservation of the exterior and restoration of the interior of a 19th century three-story and basement one family townhouse in the Brooklyn Heights Historic District.


20 Willow Street
Brooklyn Heights
Conservation of the exterior and restoration of the interior of a 19th century three-story and basement townhouse in the Brooklyn Heights Historic District.




Francis M. Minor Children's House
Brooklyn Botanical Garden
Conservation of the exterior and restoration of the interior of the Brooklyn Botanical Garden Children’s House adjacent to the Children’s Garden. Designed by the architectural firm of McKim, Mead & White in 1917 to serve as an auxiliary building to the Children’s Garden, where each child planned, planted, tended and harvested his or her own vegetables in an individual plot.
Past a wood trellis entry gate, the building contains a front entry porch, a classroom for rainy day instructions, flower arranging and cooking demonstrations, a tool room for storage of children’s tools, a cooking pantry, a locker room and a rear assembly porch.
A typical planting day consisted of the smallest child riding to the Garden House in a wheelbarrow. As the children approached the House, a flag would be raised and the children would enter through the trellis gate and go to their garden plots where they would find their tools laid out.
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139 Plymouth Street
Brooklyn, New York
Conservation of the entrance and lobby of the four and six story 211,000 square foot E.W. Bliss Company machine works building. Designed by J. Irving Howard and William Tubby and constructed in heavy mill construction in stages from 1879 to 1900 in the DUMBO Historic District of the Brooklyn waterfront.


30 Washington Street
Brooklyn, New York
Preparation of a National Register application confirming a contributing building and obtaining an Historic Investment Tax Credit for a 90,000sf seven story factory building being converted to residential use in the DUMBO Historic District of the Brooklyn waterfront.
Designed by Benjamin Finkensieper, Architect for Robert Gair, in an American Round Arch style and constructed with a brick facade with stone lintels and sills, cast-iron tie rods and a pressed metal cornice in 1887.