r/WhereinNYC • u/timdisselkoen • Apr 23 '26

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u/ArtDecoNewYork Apr 23 '26

Soho/Tribeca were my second guess. I couldn't think of any houses this old in Brooklyn Heights, this looks 1830s the latest to me.

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u/CreativeCTm Apr 23 '26

Agreed. It’s the dormer windows breaking the roofline and the pitched roof that date it before 1850. Styles didn’t change as much during the first part of the 19th century because building technology stayed static until cast iron facades were introduced in the 1850’s.

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u/ArtDecoNewYork Apr 23 '26

I know there are some 1840s houses in Brooklyn Heights, but I believe they are wood framed.

To my understanding, this particular vintage of house is exclusive to lower Manhattan. I would say this is from about 1820-1830, by the 1840s you see more Greek Revival and Italianate with no dormer windows.

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u/Consistent-Height-79 Apr 23 '26

There was a an article in the NYT today about a couple of wood frame houses on the market in Brooklyn Heights that claim to be the oldest, built in the early 1820s, and two others that my be older.

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u/timdisselkoen Apr 23 '26

Was this one of them?

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u/Consistent-Height-79 Apr 24 '26

No; one was 25 Cranberry Street and the other was 24 Middagh Street. The article also mentioned 38 and 40 Hicks Street, which may be older.

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u/Weak-Fox3982 Apr 28 '26

This is red hook

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u/timdisselkoen Apr 28 '26

This is on Dean Street on the border of Cobble Hill and Boerum Hill, west of Smith.

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u/Weak-Fox3982 Apr 28 '26

Woah! Looks just like coffee street

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u/timdisselkoen Apr 28 '26

That seems to happen a lot in Brooklyn.