Fort Greene and Clinton Hill

The Fort Greene and Clinton Hill Neighborhood and Architectural History Guide by Francis Morrone is a wide-ranging social and cultural history of the part of Brooklyn bounded roughly by Flatbush, Classon, Atlantic, and Flushing Avenues and includes extensive material about the development of the Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, and Wallabout neighborhoods; the history of Fort Greene Park; notable neighborhood personages including Walt Whitman, Marianne Moore, Theodore Ledyard Cuyler, Richard Wright, William C. Kingsley, Susan Smith McKinney-Steward, Charles Pratt, and Spike Lee; and the histories of local institutions such as Pratt Institute, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Colored School No. 1, St. Joseph's College, Lafayette Avene Presbyterian Church, and much more. The guide is illustrated with contemporary architectural photographs by Etienne Frossard as well as numerous older and archival photographs