Bricks and Brownstone was the first—and is still the only—book to examine in depth the history and varied architectural styles of New York’s townhouses, the growth and history of Manhattan and Brooklyn’s highly desirable historic townhouse neighborhoods, and the everyday lives of the nineteenth-century New Yorkers who lived in these townhouses and neighborhoods. The new and expanded Rizzoli edition has 110 new color pages and the author’s 14 favorite “Best of the Brownstones” Walking Tours.

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“A bible for buffs, architects, and preservationists.”
  — The New Yorker

“Lockwood’s beautiful history of the swanky brownstones and single-family row houses that graced Manhattan and Brooklyn . . . has been updated. . . Architecture buffs and New York historians will love it.”
  — Library Journal

“This unrivaled portrait of New York’s rows and rows of brownstones sensitively describes their years of development, demise, and revival.”
  — Metropolis.

Read about Charles Lockwood and Bricks and Brownstone in the New Yorker magazine.