Hunterfly Road Houses, 1702-04 Bergen Street

1702 Bergen Street | also 1702 Beaver Place, 3 Beaver Place | Crown Heights | built 1830

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1830
A one-story shingled double house is built facing the old Hunterfly Road
The Landmarks Preservation Commission dates the house at 1702-04 Bergen Street to about 1830, an estimate from Loring McMillen, a scholar of the city's wooden buildings. It is a one-story frame building split into two units, each three bays wide, with shingled front and sides and one brick chimney shared by both. The architect is unknown.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1970
August 18
The city landmarks the Bergen Street house, with schoolchildren among its supporters
The Landmarks Preservation Commission designated the house and its lots a landmark on August 18, 1970, after a hearing on June 23 where more than fifteen people spoke in favor. They included students from Public School 243. The report ties it to three neighboring houses as a unique enclave, and notes that a local preservation society hoped to acquire the buildings for a history museum.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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