296 State Street House
296 State Street | Downtown Brooklyn | built 1852
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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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- 1852
Wood-yard owner Erastus A. Conkling moves into 296 State Street
George Hastings, a merchant who lived on Pierrepont Street, bought this lot from Charles Hoyt in 1850 and sold it the next year to Erastus A. Conkling, who ran a wood yard. Conkling moved into the house on the lot in 1852. The Landmarks Preservation Commission dates the house to about that year.
- 1852
A single house at 296 State Street blends Greek Revival and Italianate styles
Built around 1852 as a stand-alone residence, the three-story painted-brick house is basically Greek Revival, but it carries Italianate touches in its roof cornice and in the brackets under the doorway's brownstone pediment. The Landmarks Preservation Commission calls it a transitional house and notes its stylistic kinship with the earlier pair at Nos. 300 and 302.
“…a transitional house, built c. 1852, is basically Greek Revival in style, although it incorporates elements that can be attributed to the new Italianate style.”
- 1973
The Landmarks Preservation Commission designates 296 State Street a city landmark
After a June 1970 hearing at which twenty-six witnesses spoke for preserving the Boerum Hill neighborhood and none opposed designating the State Street houses, the Landmarks Preservation Commission made 296 State Street an individual landmark on November 20, 1973. The designation covers the house and its tax lot, Block 176, Lot 8.
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