Four-story brownstones in Harlem, just south of 125th Street, 2004

Romanesque revival building in Colorado, built in 1890

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History

While brownstone is often popularly associated in the United States of America with New York City, the stone was used widely around the world before losing popularity around 1900 in part due to rapid failures of carved surface details in the weathering process. The quarries used for the early brownstones of New York City were in New Jersey, and in the Connecticut River area. Brownstone with qualities approaching granite is currently being imported from Germany. New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... For other uses, see Quarry (disambiguation). ... “NJ” redirects here. ... The Connecticut River as seen from the French King Bridge in western Massachusetts. ...

The Avondale section of Nutley, New Jersey, was home to one such quarry. Jobs at the quarry supported a sizeable portion of the Italian and Irish immigrants in Nutley at the turn of the century. This quarry was later home to the Nutley Velodrome. Map of Nutley Township in Essex County Nutley is a township in Essex County, New Jersey, United States. ...

Brownstone dwellings

In Boston and New York City, a "brownstone" is understood to be a terrace or rowhouse clad in brownstone. These brownstone apartments typically have stairways which lead from the sidewalk to a second-floor apartment entrance, a design originally intended to avoid bringing in the mud and horse droppings commonly found at street level, a problem that existed when these apartments were built and horses roamed the streets. New York City brownstones tend to be found in certain older neighborhoods, which are perhaps most common in Brooklyn. For example, the neighborhood of Bedford Stuyvesant has the largest inventory of brownstones in the entire City of New York, followed closely by Park Slope. Many brownstones have been renovated in recent years, leading to (and/or as a result of) gentrification in areas like Park Slope, Bedford Stuyvesant and Fort Greene. On the popular 1980s-'90s American television program The Cosby Show, the affluent Huxtable family, the show's central characters, lived in a Brooklyn brownstone, whereas more recently, Sex and The City's protagonist, Carrie Bradshaw resided in a brownstone at a fictitional Upper East Side address in New York City. A street of British Victorian/Edwardian terraced homes. ... A street of British terraced housing In architecture and city planning, a terrace, rowhouse, or townhouse (United States) is a style of housing since the late 18th century where identical individual houses are cojoined into rows. ... This article is about the borough of New York City. ... A neighbourhood or neighborhood (see spelling differences) is a geographically localised community located within a larger city or suburb. ... Bedford Stuyvesant (aka Bed-Stuy) is a neighborhood in central Brooklyn, New York City. ... A typical Park Slope block in spring. ... The tone or style of this article or section may not be appropriate for Wikipedia. ... A typical Park Slope block in spring. ... Bedford Stuyvesant (aka Bed-Stuy) is a neighborhood in central Brooklyn, New York City. ... Fort Greene is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. ... The Cosby Show is an American television sitcom starring Bill Cosby, first broadcast on September 20, 1984 and ran for eight seasons on the NBC television network, until April 30, 1992. ... Sex and the City is a popular American cable television program. ... Sarah Jessica Parker as Carrie Bradshaw Caroline Marie Bradshaw (born October 10, 1966) is the fictional narrator of the HBO sitcom/drama Sex and the City played by actress Sarah Jessica Parker. ... The Upper East Side at Sunset The Upper East Side is a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, USA, between Central Park and the East River. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ...

The term Brownstone may also be used as slang for heroin, particularly in the United States; "Mr. Brownstone" is a Guns N' Roses song about heroin use. For other uses, see Heroin (disambiguation). ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Guns N Roses is an American hard rock band, formed in Los Angeles, California in 1985. ...

See also

• Railroad apartment
• Hummelstown brownstone

A railroad apartment is a type of apartment floorplan in which there is no hallway and all the rooms are arranged in a line. ... Hummelstown brownstone is a medium-grain, dense sandstone quarried near Hummelstown in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, USA. It is a dark brownstone with reddish to purplish hues and was once widely used as a building stone in the United States. ...

External links

• Website devoted to the Apostle Island brownstone quarries in Wisconsin.
• Website devoted to the Weser brownstone quarries from Germany being imported into the US.

• Link to Brownstone Manufacturer Brownstone Fabricator in New York.