1869 – Mercantile Library Building, Brooklyn, New York, USA

Architect: P.B. Wight

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The architect Peter Bonnett Wight’s career “flourished in the 1860s and early 1870s in New York, where he developed a decorative, historicist style that showed affinities to the work of European designers John Ruskin and Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin. Clearly seen here. Demolished.

Published August 2, 2009 | Last Updated July 15, 2010