Renaissance Apartments | |
 September 2012 | |
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| Location | 480 Nostrand Ave., Brooklyn, New York |
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| Coordinates | 40°40′56″N 73°57′1″W / 40.68222°N 73.95028°W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1892 |
| Architect | Morris, Montrose W. |
| Architectural style | Renaissance |
| NRHP reference No. | 95001026 [1] |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | August 22, 1995 |
| Designated NYCL | March 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]
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ 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".