Dumbo
Currently browsing the Dumbo category
About the Author
Russell Granger is the founder and CEO of Arch Digitals, a branding and marketing agency specializing in strategy and design for engaging customers online. He began focusing his research and archiving efforts on antebellum Brooklyn when family history pursuits led to the discovery of an association with Walt Whitman. Russell currently lives in the Dumbo neighborhood of Brooklyn, just a few streets from several ancestral addresses from the 1830s.
Scene at the Ferry Landing
Scene at the Ferry Landing, Brooklyn, by William J. Peirce, 1857. Modern tinting.
Boston-based artist and engraver William J. Peirce created this dynamic composition for an 1857 edition of Ballou’s Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion, which elected to caption the windswept, tumultuous scene (note the capsized mast and the escaping survivors) with the decidedly prosaic, “View of the Fulton Ferry Buildings.” Ah, good old New England reserve.
St. Ann’s
Looking northwest at the corner of Washington and Sands streets, abt. 1840. Modern tinting.
St. Ann’s is a Brooklyn institution that goes back to the eighteenth century, one which has continued to evolve and exhibit relevance to successive generations, to each new version of Brooklyn. Today’s St. Ann’s on Montague Street in the Heights continues to serve parishioners, and stands as one of the finest masterpieces of the Gothic Revival style in America, with its historic stained glass windows by William Jay Bolton, the first made in America. St. Ann’s Warehouse, the performance organization that grew out of the church’s restoration funding efforts in the 1980s and is now located in an old spice milling factory on Water Street in Dumbo, has become one of the most important and compelling live performance destinations in New York City.
posted in All, Dumbo June 23rd, 2008