Two pairs of unusual, vernacular, late Greek Revival frame houses, 293 and 295 Cumberland Street and 297 and 299 Cumberland Street, wee built for Samuel I. Underhill around 1853. Although the houses have been altered, all but No. 299 retain much of their original appearance.
Nos. 293-295 were originally two-and-one-half stories above tall brick basements. The most striking feature of the houses is their shared, one-stpory high porch with balustrades, stylized Corinthian columns that support a dentilled cornice with modest jigsaw-cut brackets. Originally high stoops led to the porches that shade the entrances with typical Greek Revival crossetted engramements, double doors, transom lights and dentilled cornices. The narrow four-over-six floor length windows of the fist floor have enframements similar to the entrance. On the second floor, the two-over-two windows also have crossetted enframements and projecting lintels. Small, two-over-two windows with simple enframements mark the third floor. Immediately above these windows is a wooden bracketed cornice.
Nos. 297 and 299 were original similar to Nos. 293 and 295, although only two stories in height. The mansard roofs were added about twenty years after the houses were completed. All four houses have been resided and No. 295 has had its attic story rraised, its cornice raised and its upper story window enframements replaced. No. 299 has had ts porch and door and window enframements removed.
The Fort Green Historic District was designated by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1978.
Fort Greene Historic District National Register #83001691
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Olmsted, located at 659 Vanderbilt Avenue in Prospect Heights, was opened by chef Greg Baxtrom and Ian Rothman. The menu focuses on local and seasonal ingredients--many of which are grown on site in the backyard garden or the potted plants lining the interior walls.
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Grilled asparagus with pancetta, poached egg, shaved Parmigiano and lemon garlic vinaigrette
al di là trattoria, at 248 5th Avenue, was opened in 1998 by chef Anna Klinger and her husband Emiliano Coppa, whom she met while traveling through Italy. The intimate Park Slope pioneer, whose name means "over there", specializes in simple, soulful Venetian cuisine.
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Jane Greengold's Wings for the IRT: The Irresistable Romance of Travel was installed in Grand Army Plaza Station in 1995. The bronze and terra cotta bas relef on the mezzanine wall is modeled on the original Interborough Rapid Transit Company logo, Flying Wheels--a subway car with wings--and references the Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial Arch in the plaza above with its Winged Victories.
Grand Army Plaza Station, opened on August 23, 1920, is a local station on the IRT Eastern Parkway Line, located underneath Flatbush Avenue at its northwest intersection with Grand Army Plaza. The station is close to Prospect Park, and is thus identified as Grand Army Plaza–Prospect Park in 2 and 3 service timetables.
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