Hunterfly Road Houses, 1706-08 Bergen Street
1706 Bergen Street | Crown Heights | built 1899
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1827
The houses sit at the edge of Weeksville, a free Black community begun around 1827
The landmark report calls Weeksville the first major free Black settlement in what is now Bedford-Stuyvesant, begun about the time slavery ended in New York in 1827. The commission says these houses lie on its edge. It adds that their connection to Weeksville has not been fully documented, though an 1850s address read "Weeksville, near Hunterfly Road."
- 1830
A one-and-a-half-story double house with bracketed eaves is built at the south end of the Hunterfly Road row
The Landmarks Preservation Commission puts the frame house at 1706-08 Bergen Street at about 1830, based on Loring McMillen's examination, and says the architect is unknown. It is a shingled one-and-a-half-story building at the southern end of the enclave, with two units sharing a central chimney on a steep roof. The front eaves rest on scroll-cut brackets.
- 1970
The city designates 1706-08 Bergen Street a landmark
On August 18, 1970 the Landmarks Preservation Commission designated the house at 1706-08 Bergen Street a landmark, together with its tax lots. The report treats it, with 1698, 1700 and 1702-04 Bergen Street, as an enclave built parallel to a colonial road. Students from Public School 243 were among those who spoke for designation at the June 23 hearing.
“…designates as a Landmark the Houses on Hunterfly Road, 1706-1708 Bergen Street, Borough of Brooklyn…”
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