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Renaissance Apartments

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Renaissance Apartments
Renaissance Apartments

Renaissance Apartments is a historic apartment building located at Hancock Street and Nostrand Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York City. It was built in 1892 and is a five-story masonry building in the French Renaissance style. It features elaborately decorated principal facades and prominent circular corner towers with slate covered conical roofs. It has steeply sloped slate mansard roofs with terra cotta ridge caps and gabled roof dormers.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

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Renaissance Apartments
Hancock Street, New York Brooklyn

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11216 New York, Brooklyn
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