Lovable Lesser-Known Landmarks: A Morris Montrose design plus other fine 19th-Century housing
Eye On Real Estate
Right this way to the Renaissance.
One of the leading lights of late 19th-Century Brooklyn architecture, Montrose Morris, designed the Bedford-Stuyvesant apartment house at 480 Nostrand Ave. that bears this name.
It’s meant to look like a Loire Valley chateau, with turrets, and a façade of buff brick and terra cotta laid out in subtle stripes.
Built in 1892, it’s an individual city landmark. Howard Hershkovich and Thomas Anderson of Boston Road of Brooklyn Associates bought it for $12,500 from the City of New York in 1994, city Finance Department records indicate.