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Brooklyn 



The use of stone in building in Brooklyn is relatively 

 less than in the metropolis. The same general statements, 

 descriptive of the use of building stone in New York, with 

 some slight modifications, are applicable to the city of Brook- 

 lyn, which is practically a part of the great metropolis. 



There are relatively fewer large mercantile structures and 

 public buildings, and more dwelling-houses, and a notable 

 absence of the large apartment-houses, so common in New 

 York. The number of dwellings in proportion to the popu- 

 lation is greater, but in average size and cost they are 

 inferior, and to that extent more generally of brick, and 

 stone fronts are not as numerous and common as in the 

 metropolis. 



The Connecticut brownstone predominates in the fronts 

 of stores and dwelling-houses, and in the older construc- 

 tions. As in New York city, so here, there is an increasing 

 use of other stone, and especially of the oolitic limestones 

 of Indiana and Kentucky. 



Among the more important edifices in which stone has 

 been used extensively, the following are given as examples 

 of the several varieties. The list is incomplete, and is pre- 

 sented as an appendix to the more full one of New York, and 

 as a part of the metropolitan district. The United States 

 Government building and Post-office are of granite — 

 Maine. Quincy granite is noted in the memorial arch Pros- 

 pect Park plaza. The city hall, Kings county court-house and 

 the municipal building are of white marble. The city hall is 

 older and the Westchester county marble in it has weathered 

 to a light-gray color. The newer fronts of the other buildings 

 appear still fresh and white. Trinity Protestant Episcopal 

 church, Clinton and Montague streets, is a beautiful Gothic 

 structure in red sandstone, from the quarries at Middletown, 

 Connecticut. The blocks are fine-pointed ashlar work, in 

 places disfigured by calcareous deposits from the mortar of 



