Renaissance Apartments
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Renaissance Apartments is a historic apartment
building located at Hancock Street and Nostrand Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn
, New York, New York
. 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 roof
s with terra cotta
ridge caps and gabled roof dormers.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
in 1995.
Apartment
An apartment or flat is a self-contained housing unit that occupies only part of a building...
building located at Hancock Street and Nostrand Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn
Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn
Bedford-Stuyvesant is a neighborhood in the central portion of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. Formed in 1930, the neighborhood is part of Brooklyn Community Board 3, Brooklyn Community Board 8 and Brooklyn Community Board 16. The neighborhood is patrolled by the NYPD's 79th and 81st...
, New York, New York
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
. 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
Slate
Slate is a fine-grained, foliated, homogeneous metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash through low-grade regional metamorphism. The result is a foliated rock in which the foliation may not correspond to the original sedimentary layering...
covered conical roofs. It has steeply sloped slate mansard roof
Mansard roof
A mansard or mansard roof is a four-sided gambrel-style hip roof characterized by two slopes on each of its sides with the lower slope at a steeper angle than the upper that is punctured by dormer windows. The roof creates an additional floor of habitable space, such as a garret...
s with terra cotta
Terra cotta
Terracotta, Terra cotta or Terra-cotta is a clay-based unglazed ceramic, although the term can also be applied to glazed ceramics where the fired body is porous and red in color...
ridge caps and gabled roof dormers.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...
in 1995.