Wall of Windows Mystifies on Hall Street
We always get a kick out of this house at 111 Hall Street when we drive by. Located between Myrtle and Park, the idiosyncratic woodframe looks like the owners found a bunch of old church windows and slapped them up one weekend. We love it and are dying to know the story behind the house’s…
We always get a kick out of this house at 111 Hall Street when we drive by. Located between Myrtle and Park, the idiosyncratic woodframe looks like the owners found a bunch of old church windows and slapped them up one weekend. We love it and are dying to know the story behind the house’s design. Can anyone help us out?GMAP P*Shark
The horror, the horror..
And to be clear: Looking at the cornice, it’s pretty obvious that this is an old frame. So why would people who cherish historic architecture be pleased by somebody’s choice to stick these clearly inappropriate windows onto such a building? The windows themselves are cool, but they’re also really weird on an 1800s rowhouse. No?
Wait, you’re saying that the house was constructed in recent years using salvaged materials, which would be kinda neat? And not that someone installed these interesting but obviously not appropriate windows in an existing 120-year-old house? Because the latter would be a lot less likable than the former. Sorry for the tortured syntax….
exactly
Nice B.O.M.B.
111 hall st. is a centenial house, that was constructed of used materials salvaged from the old Presbiterian church on Jamaica highway (now fulton st). the windows are from a public school in harlem, and were installed in 1975.
wwww.brooklynsothermuseumofbrooklyn.com
check this out
I hope that the owner is a sculptor and not a sculpture.
An a very quiet person too, I’ll bet.
if i remember correctly, the owner is a sculpture and was on the house tour last year.