Bricks & Brownstone: A Conversation with Patrick Ciccone

On June 25, the League will hosted a webinar with author and League Trustee Patrick Ciccone to discuss the recent reissue of the classic book Bricks & Brownstone: The New York Row House. If you missed the live event, you can still check out the conversation thanks to the recording.

Bricks & Brownstone is the new edition of the classic history of the New York row house. First published in 1972, the original book by Charles Lockwood became known as the Brownstone Bible, the authoritative work on the history and architecture of New York's row houses and brownstones. The new edition, by the late Lockwood and co-author Patrick W. Ciccone, traces New York's row houses from colonial days through World War I, examining in detail the Federal, Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, Italianate, and Second Empire architectural styles of the early and mid-nineteenth century, as well as the Neo-Grec, Queen Anne, Romanesque, Renaissance Revival, and Colonial Revival styles of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

"A bible for buffs, architects, and preservationists" - Judith Thurman, The New Yorker

Patrick W. Ciccone is a New York City-based preservationist who has led major historic rehabilitation projects in Manhattan, Brooklyn, upstate New York, and Pennsylvania, and is a trustee of the Preservation League of New York State.

Bricks & Brownstone can be purchased online from your local bookseller at Indiebound.