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163 9th Street, 1933
I’ve always had a little soft spot for this Gowanus house on 9th Street between 2nd & 3rd Avenues, which is for sale. What a difference a picket fence makes. Historic image courtesy New York...
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Wooden Houses in the Snow
Courtesy of the Brooklyn Public Library’s Brooklyn Collection.
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Beautiful Old Wooden Houses
Here is a photo of a woman pushing a baby carriage, circa 1930, past some old wooden houses. According to the Brooklyn Public Library, the location is “unknown but possibly showing the site of the...
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Research Workshop at the Brooklyn Historical Society
On Saturday, April 27th from 2:00-4:00 pm, the Brooklyn Historical Society will be hosting a course on how to uncover the history of your home using images, records and documents from their...
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Graham Avenue & Conselyea Street, 1937
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Talman Street, 1936
Historic images courtesy of Museum of the City of New York and New York Public Library. What does Talman Street look like today? After the jump… Bridge Park The 1898 map from the New York Public...
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Boerum Place, 1942
A lost little dormered wooden house. This block is completely different today. Looking south along the east side of Boerum Place from the corner of Dean Street. Historic image courtesy of New York...
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69-71 Dean Street, 1960
Historic image courtesy of Brooklyn Visual Heritage and Brooklyn Historical Society. These have always been two of our favorite “I’m not in New York!” houses. Cape Cod? Nantucket? Martha’s Vineyard?...
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Graham Avenue and Jackson Street, 1935
Williamsburg is chock full of wooden houses! Although the buildings pictured above may have lost their steeples, cornices and lintels, they’ve survived as part of a thriving thoroughfare along Graham...
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Dean Street & 4th Avenue, 1929
Today’s “Then & Now” features some lovely porches & spindles on Dean Street near the corner of 4th Avenue in 1929. Google Street View caught some recent work in action! Below is the...
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14th Street between 6th & 7th Avenues, 1941
This coming Saturday, the residents of the beautiful block of 14th Street between 5th & 6th Avenues (a wooden house haven!) will be hosting a block party. The Wooden House Project is excited to be...
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Middagh and Henry Streets
Brooklyn Heights was the first incorporated village in the original city of Brooklyn, and thus has some of the oldest (and many of our favorite!) wood frame houses in the borough. This corner may be...
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Growing Up in the Shadow of the Lott House
by Lisa Santoro As a child growing up in Marine Park, the Lott House was an enigma to me. Amidst a block of prototypical Marine Park homes of brick and siding with neatly manicured front yards and...
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The Oldest Houses in Prospect Heights, c. 1940
by Chelcey Berryhill There are precious few wood-frame houses remaining in Prospect Heights today. Two of them — Nos. 578 & 580 Carlton Avenue — have long since been loved, but work is being done...
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11th Street between 5th & 6th Avenues, 1941
Just around the corner from where I live are 382 & 384 11th Street, two of my favorite twin frame houses in the South Slope. Something about their simplicity just speaks to me. Besides that,...
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20 Goodwin Avenue, 1923
An old wooden building at 20 Goodwin Avenue, just around the corner from the John and Hannah De Coudres House in Bushwick. Photo courtesy of New York Public Library and c. 1923.
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Marine Park is a Wooden House Haven
by Lisa Santoro Recently, while browsing the New York Public Library’s fantastic photo gallery, I discovered a picture of my beloved Marine Park taken in 1925 with a caption that read “part of one of...
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Henry Street and Love Lane, 1926
Brooklyn Heights of yesteryear. Historic image courtesy of Brooklyn Public Library.
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West and Weehawken Streets
393 West Street facade, 1920 We recently received an email from an inquisitive Wooden House Project reader who wanted to know if we had any information on the shingle-clad building on the West...
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Columbia Place, 1959
Columbia Place, 1959 Brooklyn Heights holds some of the Borough’s most well-preserved wood-frame houses. The above image of Columbia Place, or “cottage row,” shows us that within our recent past,...
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