Townhouse History

94 Hicks now stands was originally part of the farmland inherited by brothers Jacob and John Hicks.

This brownstone is one of four similar houses, built as two pairs. 15 through 21 Third Place were built in the late 1860s.  

45 Second Place is the first of three houses built as a group, beginning at the corner of Second Place and Clinton Street.

48 Second Place was built in the mid-1860s, and is an example of the Italianate style of architecture.

Was originally named Bergen Street. The name was changed mid-19th century, and the Bergen name was assigned to another local street.

A 4-story brick residence with a rusticated brownstone basement, brownstone wing-walled stoop.

Named for James DeGraw, one of the early landowners and farmers who settled in South Brooklyn in the early 1700s.

404 is part of a long group of fifteen houses built by the same developer, a man named Thomas Read. Probably built the houses in smaller groups.

34 7th Avenue is part of a group of five houses that includes numbers 26, on the corner of Sterling Place, to 34 7th Ave.

The area that is now Park Slope was home to the Native Americans known as the Lenape.

Park Slope neighborhood was considered part of South Brooklyn up until the mid-19th century.

205 Berkeley Place is part of a row of 11 brownstone row houses, numbers 197 through 221.

Was built in 1898, between Seventh and Flatbush Avenues. The buildings are in the Renaissance Revival style.

Located between the industrial hub of Gowanus and the upscale community of the Upper Slope, 6th St. between 4th and 5th Ave.

In September of 1891, developer and architect Ervin G. Gollner filed an application to build six two-story and basement brick houses on Sixth Street.

Most people count the block as part of Park Slope, but its history and architecture have much more of a Boerum Hill feel. 

Today, 482 9th Street is part of the Park Slope Extension Historic District, designated in 2012. 

Fine mansions lined Prospect Park West, and the side blocks between the park and 8th Avenue.

The continuation of a street that originated in what is now Carroll Gardens. Named for Charles Carroll.

The houses were to be two and a half stories tall, plus basement and cellar, “brown and redstone buildings”, with tin roofs.

The houses are quite elegant. Holden designed the group in a transitional Romanesque Revival and Renaissance Revival style.

Begins in the Columbia Waterfront District and proceeds all the way to Grand Army Plaza and the entrance to Prospect Park.

The village became a part of the city of Brooklyn and remained a sleepy enclave until the beginning of the 20th century.

Had several more owners since then, all contributing to the ongoing history of this fine house in beautiful Manor.

164 South Oxford Street was built by Augustus Knowlton, who owned the property from 1854 to 1860.

The sole structure on this lot is a one-story brick garage, which was built between 1908 and 1916.

Sits on land once owned by the Lefferts family, which held vast tracts of land in both Flatbush and Central Brooklyn.

60-62 Cambridge Place, as well as its neighbors 68-70, were built in 1863 by William Rushmore, a local builder.

Hill designed 152-160 Willoughby, a group of five Neo-Grec brownstone row houses.

Was entirely home to mansions. 396-398 Washington was built in 1887 by Ralph Cook, with luxury and location in mind.

Goods came overseas and down the Hudson from the Erie Canal to Brooklyn’s piers making this one of the busiest seaports in North America.

Is part of what modern-day local preservationists call “Stuyvesant
North.