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    Historic Districts Certificate  •  Crown Heights North Historic District, Brooklyn

    Dean Sage Mansion. Image Credit: CityLand

    The owners of the Dean Sage Mansion in Crown Heights North Historic District sought to build addition to the 1870’s mansion. In the mid-nineteenth century the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn underwent suburban development of freestanding villas. Today, only a few of the Sturgis villas remain, one of which is the Dean Sage Mansion at 839 St. Mark’s Avenue, a rare High Gothic style mansion built in 1870 by architect Russell Sturgis. The Mansion, which gained additional wings in the 1930s, is one of only a few of Sturgis’s designs in New York today. (read more…)

    Tags : CityLaw, Crown Heights North Historic District, dean sage mansion, historic district, Landmarks
    Date:01/09/2020
    Category : CityLaw
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