27 St Marks Place

New Brighton | built 1906

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

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1906
Lumber merchant George W. Allen builds his own Colonial Revival home at No. 27
George W. Allen, a lumber merchant born in Virginia, had four houses built on the north side of St. Marks Place, and No. 27 was the westernmost of them. He and his wife, Mary, moved into it after its completion in 1906 and lived there for at least twenty years. It has remained a one-family house.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1906
Edward A. Sargent, the district's busiest architect, designs No. 27 with a pedimented porch
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Edward A. Sargent, who designed more buildings in the St. George/New Brighton district than anyone else, drew No. 27 as a two-and-a-half-story Colonial Revival house. Its shingled front has a three-sided bay and a porch whose columns carry a corniced pediment, under a bracketed cornice and a broad dormer. A double-leaf glazed wood door from the period survives at the entrance.
“Edward A. Sargent, whose commissions in the historic district outnumber those of any other designer…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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