Longtime Brownstoner community member and local
architecture buff Montrose Morris (well, that's her online name anyway) starts her regular column this week in praise of terra cotta. One of my favorite features of New
... After the
Art Deco period, design sensibilities turned to stark Modernism. Many row houses lost their ornate facades, and many public buildings were torn down, their grotesques and foliate panels saved only by salvage companies and preservationists.
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