Renaissance Apartments

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Renaissance Apartments
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Location480 Nostrand Ave., Brooklyn, New York
Coordinates 40°40′56″N73°57′1″W / 40.68222°N 73.95028°W / 40.68222; -73.95028 Coordinates: 40°40′56″N73°57′1″W / 40.68222°N 73.95028°W / 40.68222; -73.95028
Arealess than one acre
Built1892
ArchitectMorris, Montrose W.
Architectural styleRenaissance
NRHP reference No. 95001026 [1]
Significant dates
Added to NRHPAugust 22, 1995
Designated NYCLMarch 18, 1986

Renaissance Apartments is a historic apartment building located at Hancock Street and Nostrand Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York City. It was built in 1892 and is a five-story masonry building in the French Renaissance style. It features elaborately decorated principal facades and prominent circular corner towers with slate covered conical roofs. It has steeply sloped slate mansard roofs with terra cotta ridge caps and gabled roof dormers. [2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. Peter D. Shaver (May 1995). "National Register of Historic Places Registration:Renaissance Apartments". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation . Retrieved 2011-02-20.See also: "Accompanying six photos".