Norwood Gardens

The Queens Chamber of Commerce published sales brochures advertising Norwood Gardens as “Country Living In The City”.

The houses were developed by Rickert Brown and designed to offer middle-income families a better quality of life than that typically found in a large, metropolitan city in the early part of the century.

The thirty attached terrace homes showcased 25-foot front gardens planted with California privet hedges, over 22 kinds of evergreens (many 10–12 feet tall) and a large variety of flowering shrubs.

The mortar is a mix of bright white lime with a quartz aggregate that sparkles and accentuates the brick.

Additional architectural elements include iron balconies, lattice work, green blinds, cement flower pots on the roof, red Italianate tiles, planter supports in the shape of lambs heads and a variety of architectural medallions embedded in the brick.