Home at 2 Collins Avenue Friday August 7, 2015 in Troy, NY. (John Carl D'Annibale / Times Union) Second Empire architecture is a lesson in perspective, a reminder that what we now look upon as ...

It was temporarily removed back in 2017 but the iconic 19th century green mansard roof is peeking out from behind scaffolding at Macy’s on the Fulton Mall in Downtown Brooklyn. Built in the 1870s, the ...

The image of impoverished writers, starving for their art and living in garrets, predated the era of Paris as a city of garrets tucked under mansard roofs. Garrets were attic living spaces — hot in ...

Even if you’ve never heard the phrase “Second Empire architecture,” you’ve seen it – on the iconic “Psycho” house, the Haunted Mansion ride at Disney World and every creepy ceramic Halloween house ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- More than a few surviving examples of 19th century mansard roofs grace historic North Shore neighborhoods, with the most elaborate one of all the crowning glory of Borough Hall, ...