These three story "shop houses" (often store on the ground floor, offices or tenants on the second floor and shop owners residence on the third floor) were common on all the commercial avenues of Prospect Lefferts Gardens. This handsome set were built in 1905 by Ritaro Realty, to the design of well known Brooklyn architects Shampan and Shampan. Shampan and Shampan went on to design many important buildings throughout Brooklyn and Manhattan including the Thrift Savings Bank on the Pratt Institute Campus in Clinton Hill, the Woodrow Wilson apartments at Eastern Parkway and Franklin Avenue, the National Register listed Temple Beth El Synagogue in Borough Park, and an art deco commercial loft building in Manhattan's fur district at 300 W. 38th street.
It's a spiritual block! - bracketed on one end by the Mt. Moriah Church and the other end by St. Francis of Assisi on the south corner of Lincoln Road.
With a shout-out to Nostrand Avenue Merchants Association - any good stories about beloved stores of yore and the evolution of our commercial blocks?
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We hope you're enjoying these emails. As the weather gets warmer we are looking for volunteers to take more photos of the neighborhood. Please contact me if you're interested so I can let you know which blocks we're missing.
Happy Spring!
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