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Thank you, acknowledge you, acknowledge you, Louis Seitz.

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Brooklynites owe this backward 19th-century developer a debt of acknowledgment for hiring acclaimed artist Montrose Morris to architecture three beauteous accommodation barrio on our home turf.

The artist conjured up castles that could authority their own in HBO's hit alternation “Game of Thrones.”

Two of these century-and-a-quarter-old architectural masterpieces, the Alhambra and the Renaissance, are amid on Nostrand Access in Bedford-Stuyvesant.

The actuality that they can be begin on the access is one of the capital affidavit we chose it as our avenue for an eight-mile burghal hike. They're agitating architectural eye candy.

We absolved forth active Nostrand Access from south to north, from the circle of Emmons Access in Sheepshead Bay to the circle of Flushing Access at the bend of Bed-Stuy.

The eight-mile ambit is walkable in a distinct day, but if you stop to booty photos of absorbing barrio you'll run out of aurora afore you're done. So we breach our airing into three segments.

We've already appear our accounts of the aboriginal two genitalia of the Nostrand Access odyssey, which took us through Sheepshead Bay, Marine Park, Midwood, Flatlands, East Flatbush, Prospect-Lefferts Gardens and Crown Heights.

Today we appetite to appearance you some of the accomplished artist to be apparent on the third and final leg of the journey.

The Alhambra

It would be analytic to alpha today's airing at the circle of Atlantic Access and arch arctic from there. But we absolutely appetite to go attending at Montrose Morris' designs first.

So let's arch for the Alhambra.

The five-story Roman-brick, stone, metal and adobe accommodation abode is amid at 500-518 Nostrand Ave., with frontage on Macon and Halsey streets. It was complete in 1889 and 1890.

The architecture delights the eye, with turrets, arcades in advanced of upper-floor windows and a mansard roof.

Its architectural appearance is allotment Romanesque Revival, allotment Queen Anne.

The burghal Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) appointed the Alhambra as an alone battleground in 1986.

The LPC's appellation abode about the architecture says it was one of the aboriginal accommodation houses in Brooklyn congenital for common families. In that era, they tended to alive in rowhouses. The Alhambra's accomplished architecture was meant to affected their abrogating opinions about accommodation buildings.

The Alhambra is in accomplished appearance in this day and age acknowledgment to its city-funded accomplishment in the 1990s.

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Anderson Associates Development Accumulation and the I.M. Foundation adapted the building, which had been damaged in a fire, and angry it into affordable housing.

The activity was partly adjourned by the burghal Department of Accommodation Preservation and Development and the burghal Accommodation Development Corp.

The Renaissance

Louis Seitz' added must-see Montrose Morris architecture on Nostrand Access is the Renaissance, which is amid at 480-488 Nostrand Ave. on the bend of Hancock Street.

It was congenital in 1892.

According to the Landmarks Preservation Commission's appellation abode about the building, its architecture was aggressive by the 16th-century chateaux of Renaissance France.

The five-story accommodation abode has annular architecture topped with cones that attending like witches' hats, a mansard roof and angled windows belted by aerial columns. It has a Roman-brick and adobe bluff laid out in stripes.

Like the Alhambra, the Renaissance was accepted alone battleground cachet in 1986.

Like the Alhambra, the Renaissance was in bad appearance aback it was adapted and angry into affordable accommodation in the 1990s.

The apology activity was handled by Anderson Associates, which was alleged as the developer by the Department of Accommodation Preservation and Development in a aggressive behest process.

By the way, the third accommodation abode Montrose Morris advised for Louis Seitz is the Imperial at 1327-1339 Bedford Ave. in Crown Heights.

A landmarked aerial academy and a accommodation advised by Magnus Dahlander

Now let's bifold aback to Atlantic Avenue, which is the abuttals amid Crown Heights and Bed-Stuy.

* The Long Island Rail Alley alternation axle that looms over the circle of Atlantic and Nostrand avenues casts apish shadows.

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* Abreast the circle of Fulton Street and Nostrand Avenue, a handsome old architecture aforetime endemic by Carver Federal Savings Bank — and afore that, Crossland Savings Bank — now houses a Walgreens store. Carver Federal Savings Bank awash 1281 Fulton St., which is the building's address, for $2.8 actor in 2009, burghal Finance Department annal indicate.

That purchaser, 1281 Fulton LLC with Joseph Ashkenazi as manager, awash the architecture in 2012 for $7.5 actor to Bleecker Square Buyer LLC, Finance Department annal show.

* Girls Aerial School, an alone burghal battleground at 475 Nostrand Ave., looks like it belongs in an Edward Hopper painting. The attractive red-brick architecture has a characteristic alpine belfry aloft its advanced door.

The school's architectural appearance is aggregate Victorian Gothic-French Second Empire. It was congenital in 1885 and 1886.

The artist was James W. Naughton, the Superintendent of Barrio for the Board of Education of the Burghal of Brooklyn.

A Collegiate Gothic-style accession to the academy was advised by C.B.J. Snyder and complete in 1912.

The accepted addressee of the acreage is the New York Burghal Department of Education's Brooklyn Adult Learning Center.

The beauteous academy architecture occupies the blockfront amid Macon and Halsey streets — anon beyond Nostrand Access from the Alhambra.

* The landmarked architecture at 478 Nostrand Ave. on the bend of Hancock Street is an eye-catcher. The Queen Anne-style accommodation was advised by artist Magnus Dahlander and complete about 1893.

The architecture is amid anon beyond Hancock Street from the Renaissance.

Jacob Dangler Abode and the Marcy Houses

* The abode at 387 Gates Ave., which is abreast the bend of Nostrand Avenue, has solar panels on its rooftop.

The architecture belongs to David and Erica Ashe, who purchased it for $1.7 actor in 2015, Finance Department annal show.

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The agent in that transaction, Gates Access Associates LLC with Tomer Dafna as sole member, had adapted the abode afterwards affairs it for $215,000 in 2013, Barrio Department filings and Finance Department annal indicate.

* Construction of a seven-story, 29-unit residential architecture is underway at 348 Nostrand Ave. The armpit is amid amid Lexington and Greene avenues.

The acreage buyer is Nos Realty LLC with Lynn Kornblum as a member, Finance Department annal indicate.

* The backward Shirley Chisholm appears on a mural corrective on the ancillary of 498 Greene Ave. aloof off the bend of Nostrand Avenue.

She was the aboriginal African-American woman to serve in the U.S. Abode of Representatives and the aboriginal African-American applicant from a above political affair to run for President.

The mural, which is blue-blooded “When Women Pursue Justice,” was corrective by a accumulation alleged Artmakers Inc.

* There are clear homes on the arctic and south corners of Hart Street, which begins at Nostrand Access and gain east from there.

* Jacob Dangler House, congenital about 1902, is amid at 441 Willoughby Ave. on the bend of Nostrand Avenue.

According to a two-part Brownstoner.com adventure by architectural historian Suzanne Spellen, Dangler was an immigrant from Alsace-Lorraine who endemic a affluent Brooklyn meat and accoutrement business. He was additionally a real-estate broker and a trustee and administrator of Fulton Savings Bank. The architectural appearance of his abode is French Gothic Revival.

According to Finance Department records, the architecture now belongs to the United Grand Chapter Order of Eastern Star, State of New York Inc., with Paul Alvarenga as Grand Secretary.

* The Marcy Houses are on Nostrand Access amid Myrtle and Flushing avenues.

Of course, this is the New York Burghal Accommodation Authority development area hip-hop mogul Jay-Z grew up.

* Our airing ends at the circle of Flushing Avenue, which is Nostrand Avenue's point of origin. This isn't a asleep end. There's a alley on the arctic ancillary of the intersection, but it's Lee Avenue, which runs on a askew through the south end of Williamsburg.

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