295 State Street House
295 State Street | Boerum Hill | built 1872
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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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- 1872
Michael Murray builds 295 State Street as a 25-foot brownstone with a round-arched door
No. 295 State Street went up in 1872 as part of a row of six houses built by Michael Murray. Its brownstone front is 25 feet wide and three stories high over a rusticated basement. The wooden double doors reach up into the round arch of the doorway, and the stoop has balustered handrails ending in hexagonal newel posts.
“No. 295 State Street was erected as part of a row of six houses (Nos. 289-299)…”
- 1874
Dentist Chandler F. Graves buys 295 State Street but moves in later
Chandler F. Graves, a dentist, purchased 295 State Street in 1874 but did not live in it until later. The house had been built two years earlier by Michael Murray as part of a six-house row.
- 1973
The Landmarks Preservation Commission designates the 295 State Street House a landmark
Report LP-0746, dated November 20, 1973, designated the house at 295 State Street and its tax lot (Brooklyn block 170, lot 45) a landmark. This house was Item No. 59 at the June 23, 1970 hearing, where twenty-six witnesses spoke up for preserving Boerum Hill and nobody argued against designating the State Street houses. The Commission found No. 295 a fine late Italianate example that is part of a handsome row of five and adds to the character of the neighborhood.
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