Master masons restoring Crown Heights's historic façades, stoops, and ironwork since 1995. LPC-approved for Brooklyn historic districts.
Crown Heights North contains some of Brooklyn's grandest late-19th-century row houses, particularly along Park Place and Sterling Place. The four phases of LPC designation between 2007 and 2019 have brought most of the architecturally significant blocks under historic review.
Crown Heights developed in the 1880s and 1890s as the next neighborhood east from Bed-Stuy along the streetcar lines. The blocks closest to Eastern Parkway (designed by Olmsted and Vaux as the world's first 'parkway') attracted especially ambitious row house construction. The Beaux-Arts mansions facing the parkway are among the most monumentally-scaled residential properties in Brooklyn.
Notable streets: Park Place, Sterling Place, St. Marks Avenue, Brooklyn Avenue, Bedford Avenue.
Crown Heights restoration projects often involve large-scale ornament: heavy stone window hoods, monumental cornices, carved capitals on Corinthian porches. The scale of the carved work here demands shop carving facilities and skilled carvers — not the field-mix patching that suffices on smaller buildings.
Monumental-scale brownstone and limestone restoration; carved capital and column work; Beaux-Arts façade restoration on the Eastern Parkway blocks; cornice and parapet restoration on the larger houses; LPC compliance for the four-phase historic district.
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