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Joralemon Street. Medical Arts Building. Lower stories

1929

Medical Arts Building

Joralemon Street. Medical Arts Building. Lower stories

IMAGE DATE1929
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Medical Arts Building, 1929.

The Medical Arts Building was completed in 1927 to the designs of Mortimer E. Freehof, an architect of a number of Brooklyn Heights apartment buildings. The Art Deco structure is rendered in a tan brick. Its decoration (which gives it a bit of a Gothic feel) is fun and whimsical with lions bracketing the balcony whose sole purpose seems to be to highlight the building's carved name, while plaques of intertwined cranes separating the windows.

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