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The conversion of the former Strong Place Baptist Church at 58 Strong Place in the Cobble Hill section of Brooklyn is nearing completion, according to an article today at ny.curbed.com.
The development is creating 24 residential condominium apartments at the site, which is at Degraw Street, and they will be priced initially, according to the article, from $885,000 to $2.1 million.
According to thelandmarkatstrongplace.com, the church was designed in 1853 in Early English Gothic Revival style originally by Minard Lafever, who also designed the Packer Collegiate Institute on Joralemon Street in Brooklyn.
The brownstone church was laid in random ashlar and its 117-foot-high tower has three pointed windows above the pointed arched doorway and three pointed openings just below the tower's crenellated top.
The building's lobby has the original church brass chandeliers. The double-height lobby also has brass mailboxes and two elevators and solid slate floors. The original slate roof has been replaced with Grand Slate Sheffield black shingles that were approved by the Landmarks Preservation Commission as was a new addition was built on the western yard and rear potion of the rectory of the church on Degraw Street and an iron fence.
The conversion has been designed by Michael Ingui of Baxt/Ingui Architects for James Plotkin and David Yerushalmi.
The church was closed shortly before the Millennium and suffered considerable water damage from a leaking roof.
Apartments range in size from just under 1,000 to over 2,000 square feet and some are duplex units with balconies and roof terraces.
The building has a package room in the lobby for deliveries and a "virtual doorman" intercom systerm and there are 20 private storage rooms in the basement as well as an exercise/yoga room.
Apartments have solid planked white oak flooring stained with a walnut finish and open-style kitchens have Shaker-style cabinetry and Bosch dishwashers and refrigerators with 36-inch double-doors. Each apartment has washer/dryer hookups.
Bathrooms have Toto fixtures and teak finish vanities.
The development is creating 24 residential condominium apartments at the site, which is at Degraw Street, and they will be priced initially, according to the article, from $885,000 to $2.1 million.
According to thelandmarkatstrongplace.com, the church was designed in 1853 in Early English Gothic Revival style originally by Minard Lafever, who also designed the Packer Collegiate Institute on Joralemon Street in Brooklyn.
The brownstone church was laid in random ashlar and its 117-foot-high tower has three pointed windows above the pointed arched doorway and three pointed openings just below the tower's crenellated top.
The building's lobby has the original church brass chandeliers. The double-height lobby also has brass mailboxes and two elevators and solid slate floors. The original slate roof has been replaced with Grand Slate Sheffield black shingles that were approved by the Landmarks Preservation Commission as was a new addition was built on the western yard and rear potion of the rectory of the church on Degraw Street and an iron fence.
The conversion has been designed by Michael Ingui of Baxt/Ingui Architects for James Plotkin and David Yerushalmi.
The church was closed shortly before the Millennium and suffered considerable water damage from a leaking roof.
Apartments range in size from just under 1,000 to over 2,000 square feet and some are duplex units with balconies and roof terraces.
The building has a package room in the lobby for deliveries and a "virtual doorman" intercom systerm and there are 20 private storage rooms in the basement as well as an exercise/yoga room.
Apartments have solid planked white oak flooring stained with a walnut finish and open-style kitchens have Shaker-style cabinetry and Bosch dishwashers and refrigerators with 36-inch double-doors. Each apartment has washer/dryer hookups.
Bathrooms have Toto fixtures and teak finish vanities.
Architecture Critic
Carter Horsley
Since 1997, Carter B. Horsley has been the editorial director of CityRealty. He began his journalistic career at The New York Times in 1961 where he spent 26 years as a reporter specializing in real estate & architectural news. In 1987, he became the architecture critic and real estate editor of The New York Post.
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