05/22/2022
P R E T T Y B A B Y 🍓: I wish I had 100 more “babies” like this 3 bed/2.5 baths beauty. Located in Ansonia Court - with one of the most coveted courtyards in NYC - it’s like living in a townhouse within a garden paradise.
Between the years of 1850 and 1929, the Ansonia Clock Company was one of the largest clock companies in the United States. The company, once in Ansonia, Connecticut. burned to the ground and was rebuilt in Brooklyn as a huge square complex, a block square, centered on an open courtyard, encompassing 12th and 13th Streets, between 7th and 8th Avenues in “the Park Slope.” It would be “the largest clock factory in the world,” according to the Brooklyn Eagle.
The design was in the popular German Romanesque Revival style called Rundbogenstil, or “round arch” style, a Brooklyn favorite for breweries, factories, mills, and warehouses. I’m 1929 due to the depression, the factory closed and was used by many other manufacturers until. 1982, when it opened back up as a coveted co-op with gorgeous prewar details and amazing light (due to its size, the courtyard itself, its sturdiness and beauty).
I love loft conversions and this magical home has the best of prewar charm, light and location. DM me for details. Come see my pretty baby!
