DESIGNATION REPORT Montauk Paint Manufacturing Company Building Landmarks Preservation Designation Report Designation List 515 Commission Montauk Paint LP-2641 Building October 29, 2019
DESIGNATION REPORT Montauk Paint Manufacturing Company Building LOCATION Borough of Brooklyn 170 Second Avenue (aka 75 13th Street) LANDMARK TYPE Individual SIGNIFICANCE The Montauk Paint Manufacturing Company Building was built in 1908 as part of the growing industrial development surrounding the Gowanus Canal and remains one of the finest buildings in the neighborhood recalling this history. Landmarks Preservation Designation Report Designation List 515 Commission Montauk Paint LP-2641 Building October 29, 2019
170 Second Avenue, Brooklyn New York 1938-1940 Tax Photo, Municipal Archives LANDMARKS PRESERVATION COMMISSION COMMISSIONERS Lisa Kersavage, Executive Director Sarah Carroll, Chair Mark Silberman, General Counsel Frederick Bland, Vice Chair Timothy Frye, Director of Strategic Planning Diana Chapin Kate Lemos McHale, Director of Research Wellington Chen Cory Herrala, Director of Preservation Michael Devonshire Michael Goldblum John Gustafsson RESEARCHED BY Anne Holford-Smith Jessica Baldwin, Research Department Everardo Jefferson Jeanne Lutfy EDITED BY Adi Shamir-Baron Kate Lemos McHale and Margaret Herman PHOTOGRAPHS BY Sarah Moses Landmarks Preservation Designation Report Designation List 515 Commission Montauk Paint LP-2641 Building 3 of 22 October 29, 2019
Montauk Paint Manufacturing Company Building 170 Second Avenue, Brooklyn Designation List 515 LP-2641 Built: 1908 Architect: Garabed George Heghinian, Civil Engineer Landmark Site: Borough of Brooklyn, Tax Map Block 1025, Lot 49 Calendared: June 25, 2019 Public Hearing: September 24, 2019 On September 24, 2019, the Landmarks Preservation Commission held a public hearing on the proposed designation of the Montauk Paint Manufacturing Company Building as a New York City Landmark and the proposed designation of the related Landmark Site (Item No. 3). The hearing was duly advertised in accordance with the provisions of the law. The Commission received support for the proposed designation from 13 people, including the representatives of New York City Councilmember Brad Lander, Gowanus Landmarking Coalition, Historic Districts Council, Society for the Architecture of the City, New York Landmarks Conservancy, Park Slope Civic Council, Friends and Residents of Greater Gowanus, The Municipal Art Society of New York, and four individuals. The Commission received 32 written submissions in support of designation. Landmarks Preservation Designation Report Designation List 515 Commission Montauk Paint LP-2641 Building 4 of 22 October 29, 2019
Summary facades, articulated by corbeled brick piers and brick spandrels and brick rowlock-course segmental Montauk Paint Manufacturing Company Building arches. The building’s segmental-arched fenestration is grouped in pairs and trios. The central bay of the 13th Street facade contains wide segmental-arched loading doors on all three stories, topped by the extant armature for hoist equipment. The Second Avenue facade features a segmental arched loading The Montauk Paint Manufacturing Company bay at the first story, and recessed panels and an Building is a handsome and highly intact former oculus within the gable. Except for the reconfigured factory building located at the corner of Second window opening on Second Avenue, window and Avenue and 13th Street in the Gowanus door replacements, and some infill at entrances, the neighborhood of Brooklyn. Designed by Garabed building is remarkably intact and is a distinctive George Heghinian, in 1908, it was one of two reminder of the Gowanus neighborhood’s industrial factories built as investments for William Kelly, history. president of the Brooklyn Alcatraz Asphalt Company, whose factory and stables occupied the rest of the block bounded at the time by 12th and 13th Streets, and Second Avenue and the Gowanus
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