In June 1932, Rose Rubinoff Buchman opened a shop at the corner of Ligonier and Depot streets to sell bridal dresses and formal clothing to the women of Latrobe. Nine decades and countless changes later, Rose Style Shoppe is still bustling with business. Ronda Goetz, third-generation owner and Rubinoff Buchman’s
New York City Brownstones Maintain Their 150-Year-Old Mystique
These stately 19th-century homes have weathered over a century of ups and downs
By Virginia K. Smith
All photos care of Getty Images unless otherwise noted.
All photos care of Getty Images unless otherwise noted.
New Yorkers have always had an outsized appreciation of architecture, but few parts of the city’s landscape have planted themselves as firmly in the collective imagination as the classic brownstone.
A part of the city’s real estate DNA since the mid-19th century, the stately single-family homes have become their own shorthand think “brownstone Brooklyn” that conveys an immediate sense of a certain kind of upscale, gentrifying neighborhood.