New York Times, August 4, 1909, p. 10 ("In the Real Estate Field")
The buildings exhibit some of the stylized hoods over the central stairway windows that we have come to associate with Bonert from his apartment houses in 3rd Street and in 6th Avenue:
Bader's roadhouse, which occupied a large parcel at the corner of Ocean Parkway and Coney Island Avenue, just outside Prospect Park, was a popular destination for excursions, apparently as much for the outsized personality of its proprietor as for its convenient location and popular prices:
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The "pointy things" in the corners are anthemions. While the term could be used for any stylized floral form, it is now used almost exclusively for the palmette-form in the inverted shield-shape at the top of a pediment, or the variations used on corners as you pointed out.
Many thanks for the tip!
Or would that be "anthemia"?
George Bader was way ahead of his time, catering to cyclists and offering ample bike parking. To steal a song title from Tim Roberts's 1992 film "Bob Roberts," perhaps "the times, they are a-changin' back."
Thanks for another fascinating look at our neighborhood's architectural history.
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