Renaissance Apartments is a historic apartment building located at Hancock Street and

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. It was built in 1892 and is a five-story masonry building in the French Renaissance style. It features elaborately decorated principal facades and prominent circular corner towers with slate covered conical roofs. It has steeply sloped slate mansard roofs with

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ridge caps and gabled roof dormers. ''See also:'' It was listed on the

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in 1995.

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Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn National Register of Historic Places in Brooklyn New York City Designated Landmarks in Brooklyn Residential buildings completed in 1892 Residential buildings in Brooklyn Residential buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in New York City {{Brooklyn-struct-stub