
Bob's Resource Website (2007)
Studebaker buildings, Brooklyn, NY
1469 Bedford Avenue
Brooklyn New York
The Studebaker Building, 1469 Bedford Avenue (aka 737-745 Sterling Place) Tooker and Marsh, architects. Designated as a landmark December 19, 2000. Built in 1920, the Studebaker Building is one of the few automobile showrooms remaining on Brooklyn's once thriving Automobile Row, the stretch of Bedford Avenue running north and south from Fulton Street to Empire Boulevard in Crown Heights. The neo-Gothic stile building is brick and white terra cotta made by the Atlantic Terra Cotta Works, the largest fabricator of architectural terra cotta in the world from the turn-of-the-century to the Depression. Cool features of the building include segmental arched openings on the fourth floor, batllemented parapet with black and white terra-cotta wheel emblems, and neo-Gothic style details including moldings, colonettes, and figural sculpture. An excellent example of a commercial terra-cotta clad structure which served as a company icon, the Studebaker Building still has the original terra-cotta design inscribed with the name "Studebaker" in black cursive on a diagonal banner across the wheel emblem, an image that was used by the corporation on buildings all over the U.S.People live on the ground and second floors. A good building in a now wack neighborhood