The Architecture of Mott B. Schmidt

This residence, built in 1922 for Mrs. Emily Dalzell whose family was engaged in the lighterage business, was designed by the noted architect Mott B. Schmidt of Manhattan. In style it is neo-Federal, and constructed of buff-colored Flemish bond brickwork. It was one of the last great private residences built in the Park Slope district of Brooklyn. The house has an English basement (first floor) entered just above street level. The arched doorway, with loaded lunette and fluted columns, is complemented by the two arched windows with muntins at the left, set in shallow arched recesses with stone rosettes between them. Separating the English basement from the floor above is a stone bandcourse providing a base for the brick quoins. The rectangular upper story windows with muntins have splayed brick flat arches. A delicate cornice separates the third floor from the neo-Federal attic story.

Text courtesy of New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission, 1973