Imperial Apartments

The Imperial Apartments is a Renaissance style residential building at 1198 Pacific Street in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City.

[1] At the time of construction, single-family row houses were typical for the middle-class families.

Changing attitudes in the late 19th century made it socially acceptable for families to live in the apartment house.

Morris designed the Imperial to speak to these changing attitudes and introduced a high-quality of design and materials such as yellow and buff brick and terra cotta to the building seamlessly blending it in with the surrounding neighborhood of Grant Square.

[2] In the 1970s, New York City took possession of the building due to unpaid taxes.