Our Story
Carroll Hall is a rare and unexpected event space featuring a botanic garden in Brooklyn.
Deeply inspired by our family, we created Carroll Hall as a quiet retreat among plant life, birds, insects, and urban wildlife. From our reverence for nature, thought behind the sustainable design, unique visual elements throughout the space, and in the name, our family is present.
Discovery, wonder, and the unexpected are important to us and are strongly represented in the garden and spaces. Fountains flow and collect rainwater; mosaic murals tell stories of underground creatures; moving walls and secret doors set the bar for discovery. We revel in curiosity and hope Carroll Hall rewards yours.
Carroll Hall exists on Lenape land. The site has been farmland, dairy production, ice cream factory, cigar rolling factory and most recently, a refrigerated dairy warehouse in this district of light industry. Elements of recent iterations are used in the current construction: walls of ceramic, brick and rubble, and most of the interior wood is reclaimed from the site.
Wonder and ancestry create an award-winning design.
Dameron Architecture is the architectural firm behind the Carroll Hall project. They are an award-winning, Brooklyn-based, multi-disciplinary studio that specializes in ecology-inspired projects and the art of adaptive reuse. At Carroll Hall, Dameron Architecture helped to reflect the interdependence between plants, animals, people, and architecture. The end result is a rare and highly-specific formal event space in Brooklyn, NYC.
Dameron Architecture has gained national recognition for their architectural design of Carroll Hall.
Carroll Hall and Dameron Architecture were awarded the 2022 AIANY Design Awards: Citation For Reclaiming Urban Space: “The buildings ‘breathe’ with automated natural ventilation. Handmade mosaic murals tell stories of underground creatures. There are moving walls and secret doors. The plants are an idealized woodland, dressed-up cousins of what might have grown along the edges of fields and farms past. Birds, bees and butterflies are invited back. Fountains and water features collect and recycle stormwater for irrigation. A decade of design and construction of this project led to a complex and interwoven series of architectural ideas…There is interdependence between plants, animals, people, and architecture. It is a rare and highly specific formal space in New York City.“ Read more about the award here →
