Brooklyn Daily Eagle, April 21, 1892, p. 2 ("New Buildings and Real Estate")
The corner building is mixed-use, with three flats over the first floor commercial space, a configuration it retains to this day. The corner commercial entrance retains the original wooden doors and cast-iron pilasters. A round window bay above the commercial entrance faces the intersection. Pressed tin detailing, familiar from many period ceilings, is here employed in panels set into the round bay:
The brownstone facing on the corner building contrasts with the yellow brick used in the adjoining four-family "single flats", but the identical cornice detailing serves to unify the row:
Bonert here employs an unusual two-story projecting window bay on the second and third floors of the apartment buildings:
This delightful corner of Park Slope, like many others in the neighborhood, retains its original emergency call box:
Later that same year, Bonert erected a matching row of buildings across 5th Street:
Brooklyn Daily Eagle, August 29, 1892, p. 5 ("New Buildings and Real Estate")
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle article incorrectly specifies the number of buildings as five; the row actually comprises four buildings, one less than the matching row to the south. But the article correctly identifies the number of dwelling units (four buildings times four units per building less one unit of commercial space equals fifteen dwelling units).
The corner building, whose brownstone facing again contrasts with the adjacent apartment houses, lacks the rounded window bay of its companion across 5th Street. But as in the neighboring ensemble, the cornice detailing helps to unify the otherwise disparate elements of the row:
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Interesting. Thank you.
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