302 State Street House
302 State Street | Downtown Brooklyn | built 1848
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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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- 1847
Hardware merchant John W. Towt has 302 State Street built after buying the lot
No. 302 State Street was built for John W. Towt, a hardware merchant who bought its lot in November 1847, along with two adjoining lots, back to back, that front on Atlantic Avenue. He moved into a new house on one of those Atlantic Avenue lots in 1848. The Landmarks Preservation Commission places the construction of No. 302 at about the same time, around 1848.
- 1848
302 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. 300, this house has a brick front rising three stories above a stuccoed basement, with brownstone trim. Its doorway is crowned by a shallow pediment above a frieze on carved brackets, and similar pediments accent the parlor-floor windows. The roof cornice has angular console end brackets, one of them shared with No. 300, with paired brackets in between.
- 1973
The Landmarks Preservation Commission designates 302 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 302 State Street an individual landmark on November 20, 1973. The designation covers the house and its tax lot, Block 176, Lot 11.
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