Brooklyn Trust Company Building, deemed “the most beautiful building on Brooklyn’s ‘Bank Row’,” is well preserved inside and out. The NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission took the unusual step of designating both the interior and the exterior as landmarks.
Chase Bank sold the building in 2007; those owners sold it in 2011, and the new owner is creating condominium apartments (Barry Rice Architects) in the rear (Pierrepont Street) annex.
Brooklyn Trust Company Building Vital Statistics
- Location: 177 Montague Street at Clinton Street
- Year completed: 1915
- Architect: York & Sawyer
- Floors: 5
- Style: Italian Renaissance
- New York City Landmark: 1996 (interior and exterior)
- National Register of Historic Places: 2009
Brooklyn Trust Company Building Recommended Reading
- Wikipedia entry
- NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission designation report (exterior)
- NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission designation report (interior)
- Brownstoner – Building of the Day blog
- Brooklyn Heights Blog archive
- Beyond the Gilded Age blog