Four-story brownstones in Harlem, just south of 125th Street, 2004

Romanesque revival building in Colorado, built in 1890

Brownstone is a brown Triassic sandstone which was once a popular building material. Harlem is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan, long known as a major African American cultural and business center The Triassic is a geologic period and system that extends from about 251 to 199 Ma (million years ago Sandstone is a Sedimentary rock composed mainly of Sand -size Mineral or rock grains. For other kinds of building materials see Hardware, Biology, Star formation. The term is also understood to be a terraced house (rowhouse) clad in this material. In Architecture and City planning, a terrace(d or row house or townhouse (though the latter term can also refer to Patio houses

Brownstone dwellings

In Boston and New York City, a "brownstone" is understood to be a terraced house (rowhouse) clad in brownstone. The City of New York In Architecture and City planning, a terrace(d or row house or townhouse (though the latter term can also refer to Patio houses These brownstone apartments typically have stairways which lead from the sidewalk to a second-floor apartment entrance, a design originally intended to avoid bringing in the mud and horse droppings commonly found at street level, a problem that existed when these apartments were built and horses roamed the streets. New York City brownstones tend to be found in certain older neighborhoods, which are perhaps most common in Brooklyn. Brooklyn (named after the Dutch town Breukelen) is one of the five boroughs of New York City. For example, the neighborhood of Bedford Stuyvesant has the largest inventory of brownstones in the entire City of New York, followed closely by Park Slope. A neighbourhood or neighborhood (see spelling differences) is a geographically localised Community within a larger City, Town or Bedford-Stuyvesant (pron \ˈstī-və-sənt\ (also known as Bed-Stuy) is a neighborhood in the central portion of the New York City, USA, borough Park Slope is a neighborhood in the western section of Brooklyn, New York City's most populous borough. Many brownstones have been renovated in recent years, leading to (and/or as a result of) gentrification in areas like Park Slope, Bedford Stuyvesant and Fort Greene. Gentrification, or urban gentrification, is the change in an Urban area associated with the movement of more affluent individuals into a lower-class Park Slope is a neighborhood in the western section of Brooklyn, New York City's most populous borough. Bedford-Stuyvesant (pron \ˈstī-və-sənt\ (also known as Bed-Stuy) is a neighborhood in the central portion of the New York City, USA, borough Fort Greene is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. On the popular 1980s-'90s American television program The Cosby Show, the affluent Huxtable family, the show's central characters, lived in a Brooklyn brownstone, and in the 1950s TV show I Love Lucy, the Ricardos lived in a converted Brownstone apartment building on New York's East 68th Street owned by their friends the Mertzes. The Cosby Show is an American television Situation comedy starring Bill Cosby, first airing on September 20, 1984 I Love Lucy is an American Situation comedy, starring Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance and William Frawley More recently, Sex and The City's protagonist, Carrie Bradshaw resided in a brownstone at a fictitious Upper East Side address in New York City. Sex and the City was an American Cable television program The original run of the show was broadcast on HBO from 1998 until 2004 for a Caroline Marie Bradshaw is the fictional narrator and lead character of the HBO Sitcom / Drama Sex and the City, played by actress The Upper East Side is a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, between Central Park and the East River. The City of New York Philadelphia has an abundant number of brownstones. North Philadelphia is a section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the United States. Due to urban renewal, brownstones are developing in Detroit as well. Urban Renewal (similar to Urban Regeneration in British English) is a controversial U

In Chicago, a brownstone typically refers to a free-standing house, originally built for a single family, clad in brownstone. Chicago (ʃɪˈkɑːgoʊ is the largest City by population in the state of Illinois and the American Midwest of the United States. While many Chicago brownstones have subsequently been split into multiple rental or condominium units, many others remain single-family homes.

The term Brownstone may also be used as slang for heroin, particularly in the United States; "Mr. Brownstone" is a Guns N' Roses song about heroin use. Heroin ( INN: diacetylmorphine, BAN: diamorphine) is a semi-synthetic opioid synthesized from Morphine, a derivative " Mr Brownstone " is a Song performed by Guns N' Roses. Guns N' Roses is an American rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1985 This could be related to brownstone neighborhoods in Harlem where dealers were likely to live, as in the lyrics of the Velvet Underground song, I'm Waiting for the Man. This article is about the band For their self-titled album see The Velvet Underground (album; for the book see The Velvet Underground (book " I'm Waiting for the Man " is a song by the American rock band The Velvet Underground, written by Lou Reed.

Notable types of brownstone

Apostle Island brownstone

Hummelstown brownstone

The Barbour County Courthouse (1903-05) in Philippi, West Virginia is faced entirely in Hummelstown brownstone. Basswood Island is a Wisconsin island in Lake Superior. It is one of the Apostle Islands and a part of the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore

Hummelstown brownstone is extremely popular along the East Coast of the United States of America, with numerous government buildings from West Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York, Maryland, and Delaware being faced entirely with the stone. Hummelstown brownstone is a medium-grain dense Sandstone Quarried near Hummelstown in Dauphin County Pennsylvania, USA The United States of America —commonly referred to as the West Virginia ( is a state in the Appalachian Upland South, and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States, bordered by The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ( often colloquially referred to as PA (its abbreviation by natives and Northeasterners is a state located in the Northeastern New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous Delaware ( is a state located on the Atlantic Coast in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. The stone comes from the Hummelstown Quarry in Hummelstown, Pennsylvania, a small town outside of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Hummelstown is a borough in Dauphin County Pennsylvania, United States. Harrisburg is the Capital of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in the United States of America The Hummelstown Quarry is the largest provider of brownstone in along the east coast. Typically the stone was transported out of Hummelstown through the Brownstone and Middletown Railroad or taken by truck up to the Erie Canal. The Erie Canal is a popular canal in New York state from the Hudson River to Lake Erie, approximately 360 miles connecting the Great Lakes

See also

• dimension stone
• Railroad apartment
• sandstone
• Hummelstown Brownstone Company

External links

• Website devoted to the Apostle Island brownstone quarries in Wisconsin. Dimension stone is natural stone or rock that has been selected and fabricated (i A railroad apartment, or railroad flat, is an apartment with a series of rooms connecting to each other in a line Sandstone is a Sedimentary rock composed mainly of Sand -size Mineral or rock grains. From 1863 to 1929 the Hummelstown Brownstone Company (HBC owned and operated quarries in the Hummelstown Pennsylvania area which produced Hummelstown brownstone
• Website devoted to the Weser brownstone quarries from Germany being imported into the US.

• Link to Brownstone Manufacturer Brownstone Fabricator in New York.
• Link to Brownstone Supplier Natural Brownstone US and Canada