292 State Street House
292 State Street | Downtown Brooklyn | built 1871
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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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- 1871
William Hobday builds 292 State Street as one of four Italianate row houses
About 1871 developer William Hobday built the house on State Street as one of a row of four. It is a three-story late Italianate rowhouse with a painted brick front above a stuccoed basement, full-height parlor windows and a roof cornice on foliate brackets. Nos. 290 to 294 survive of the row.
“No. 292 State Street was erected c. 1871 for real estate developer William Hobday as one of a row of four houses.”
- 1873
The Hoeckers, an optician and his wife, move into 292 State Street
After Hobday defaulted on the mortgage, hat merchant Nicholas Espenscheid of 5 Willow Street bought the property in 1872 and sold it later that year to Fredericka Hoecker, wife of optician John B. Hoecker. The couple took up residence in the house in 1873.
“They took up residence in the house in 1873.”
- 1973
The Landmarks Preservation Commission designates the 292 State Street House
The Landmarks Preservation Commission heard the case for designating 292 State Street on June 23, 1970, when 26 witnesses spoke in favor of preserving Boerum Hill and none spoke against the State Street houses. It designated the house a landmark on November 20, 1973, finding it a fine example of the late Italianate style and part of a handsome group of three houses. The landmark site is Block 176, Lot 6.
“…the 292 State Street House is a fine example of the late Italianate style of architecture, that it forms part of a handsome group of three houses…”
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- 302 State Street House302 State Street | 3 entries