In the late 1970s, Barbara Schiller and her husband bought a decaying brownstone in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, then in its early stages of gentrification. The house was structurally ...
Houses are packed with clues about their history. From floor to ceiling, if you look closely at the details, they may reveal when the house was built and how people lived in the space over time.
New York’s mot beloved architectural innovation might be among its most overlooked: the humble tin ceiling. Today, people view the geometrically embossed covering with rosy nostalgia. But tin ceilings ...
In the late 19th century, tin ceilings were all the rage here in America, but in Ireland, they still are. Just venture in to one of our legendary Irish pubs like The Long Hall in Dublin or The Crown ...
According to The Times, there’s only one store left in New York City devoted exclusively to pressed-tin ceilings. AA Abingdon Affiliates, now located on Utica Avenue in Flatbush, has been around for ...