Perhaps the handsomest building in a neighborhood full of them, the Herman Behr House, 84 Pierrepont Street at Henry, is an exquisite Romanesque Revival mansion designed in 1890 by Frank Freeman. The massive style was popularized by Boston architect H.H. Richardson in the 1880s and is characterized by heavy masonry walls, a fortresslike design, terra […]
from Forgotten New York http://forgotten-ny.com/2016/10/behr-house-brooklyn-heights-2/
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