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.^[2]

Location480 Nostrand Ave., Brooklyn, New York

Coordinates40°40′56″N 73°57′1″W

Arealess than one acre

Built1892

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Renaissance Apartments
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
New York City Landmark
September 2012
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Location	480 Nostrand Ave., Brooklyn, New York
Coordinates	40°40′56″N 73°57′1″W
Area	less than one acre
Built	1892
Architect	Morris, Montrose W.
Architectural style	Renaissance
NRHP reference No.	95001026 [1]
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	August 22, 1995
Designated NYCL	March 18, 1986

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It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.^[1]