AUTHOR: A Kinloch
TITLE: Gingerbread House - It's Beautiful Bay Ridge
DATE: 11:18 AM
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<div style="clear:both;"></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_aUlFK5Hylos/Rzx0-KPajZI/AAAAAAAABj8/cyoI0jedZR0/s1600-h/700_IMGP7572-Edit.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_aUlFK5Hylos/Rzx0-KPajZI/AAAAAAAABj8/cyoI0jedZR0/s400/700_IMGP7572-Edit.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5133106286545243538" border="0" /></a>Thanks to the commenters who helped place the Gingerbread House, also known as the Howard E. and Jessie Jones House, on the <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&amp;hl=en&amp;om=1&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=100686804932605768669.00000111c75abf8c8cb47&amp;ll=40.638186,-73.963394&amp;spn=0.190184,0.32135&amp;z=12&amp;iwloc=00043efa72cbd38ed0b3c">corner of Narrows Avenue and 83rd</a> in beautiful Bay Ridge.  It's an Arts and Crafts design from 1917 by J. Sarsfield Kennedy, who also designed the <a href="http://www.prospectpark.org/dest/main.cfm?target=picn">Prospect Park picnic house</a>.<br /><br />We'd read about the Gingerbread House in Kevin Walsh's book '<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Forgotten-New-York-Views-Metropolis/dp/0060754001">Forgotten New York</a>' some time ago, so were thrilled to finally get down and see it. You can find out more on the FNY <a href="http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/bayridge/bayridge.html">website</a>.<div style="clear:both; padding-bottom:0.25em"></div><p class="blogger-labels">Labels: <a rel='tag' href="http://www.adriankinloch.net/britinbrooklyn/labels/architecture.html">architecture</a>, <a rel='tag' href="http://www.adriankinloch.net/britinbrooklyn/labels/Art and Crafts.html">Art and Crafts</a>, <a rel='tag' href="http://www.adriankinloch.net/britinbrooklyn/labels/Bay Ridge.html">Bay Ridge</a>, <a rel='tag' href="http://www.adriankinloch.net/britinbrooklyn/labels/Brooklyn.html">Brooklyn</a>, <a rel='tag' href="http://www.adriankinloch.net/britinbrooklyn/labels/eccentric architecture.html">eccentric architecture</a>, <a rel='tag' href="http://www.adriankinloch.net/britinbrooklyn/labels/Gingerbread House.html">Gingerbread House</a>, <a rel='tag' href="http://www.adriankinloch.net/britinbrooklyn/labels/photography.html">photography</a></p>
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