ABC Building, Kings County Hospital

451 Clarkson Avenue | also 449 Clarkson Avenue, 441 Clarkson Avenue | Wingate | built 1930

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1930
Kings County Hospital adds nurses' buildings because its 1909 nurses' residence is far too small
By the 1930s the hospital needed more room for nurses. The nurses' residence that Helmle & Huberty designed in 1909 was already much too small, so the hospital picked architect Leroy P. Ward for new nurses' buildings and a new hospital building. The complex at 451 Clarkson Avenue was built between 1930 and 1932 and began as the Nurses Training School.
Source: brownstoner.com
1932
Leroy P. Ward's two nine-story towers and a central peaked-roof tower form the ABC Building
Ward, better known for Gold Coast and Hamptons mansions, designed two nine-story towers linked by a low three-story wing. A third, taller central tower with a peaked roof and a tall weather vane rises behind the wing, whose center holds a large entrance. Critics of the day were unsure what to make of its mix of Colonial Revival, Art Deco, Gothic and Romanesque Revival, and other influences.
Source: brownstoner.com
1932
Sculptor Rene Paul Chambellan makes the signage and bronze plaques for the nurses' building
Ward collaborated with the Art Deco-era sculptor Rene Paul Chambellan on the building. Chambellan designed its signage and some embossed bronze plaques, and put the names of famous scientists on panels flanking the entrance. He is also credited with decorating the Williamsburg Bank Building on Hanson Place and with etched designs on Manhattan's Chanin Building.
Source: brownstoner.com

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