300 State Street House

300 State Street | Downtown Brooklyn | built 1848

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1. 1847

   November

   Hardware merchant John W. Towt buys the land for 300 State Street

   In November 1847 John W. Towt, a hardware merchant, acquired the lot for No. 300 State Street. The purchase also took in two lots behind it that front on Atlantic Avenue, and in 1848 he settled in a house built on one of those Atlantic Avenue lots. The Landmarks Preservation Commission presumes the house at No. 300 went up around 1848.

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

2. 1848

   300 State Street is one of a pair of Italianate houses with brick fronts and brownstone trim

   Built around 1848 as half of a pair with No. 302, this three-story house has a brick front with brownstone trim and a doorway topped by a broad, shallow triangular pediment on carved brackets. The roof cornice has dentils and angular console end brackets, one of them shared with its twin. The commission says cast-iron railings like these became popular in New York in the 1850s, once mass production made them affordable.

   “…one of a pair of two adjoining Italianate houses ... brick fronts with brownstone trim ... angular console end brackets, one of which is also shared…”

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

3. 1973

   November 20

   The Landmarks Preservation Commission designates 300 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 300 State Street an individual landmark on November 20, 1973. The designation covers the house and its tax lot, Block 176, Lot 10.

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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