🏳️🌈The Brownstone Detectives🏳️🌈
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Do you know the #history of YOUR house?
Brooklyn, NY
Joined May 2014
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On 9 Oct 1893, 17-yo Russian-born Michel Sussman gave birth to a son, William. She lived w/her 22-yo tailor husband, Louis Blow, at No. 58 Orchard St. (Birth certificate c/o @nycrecords)
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#BROOKLYN'S BEST (1899) When the #brownstone at No. 856 St Johns Pl was new it was being sold for $7,250.
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Otto Singer's 1-Family Houses - $4,750 ea., $500 cash down, c. 1910. Their parapets were CLEARLY destined for destruction... #Brooklyn #townhouses
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@imatoysruskid Yes! "The more elaborate a house’s parapet, the less likely it is that it will survive!”
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@MLB No. 104 Madison St was previously - likely in the 1960s/70s - faced with a sort of faux stone siding called #Formstone or #Permastone. Dig it, baby!
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@MLB An 1899 Sanborn map shows No. 104 Madison St sitting along the south side w/in a row of other wood-frame houses. Today, the house appears to have received a brick facade.
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#Brooklyn's No. 104 Madison St is a wood-frame dwelling whose facade was once covered w/a combo of shake & scallop wood siding.
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A little collaboration job on this one, with Jay the Locksmith 👍 @jasonpriestOUFC He's cut a couple of keys for this solid old rimlock, plus another one, for two of my client's bedroom doors. Sound up! 🔊 Clunk Click #TheDoorRestorer Repair Restore Re-use Recycle ♻️
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A SPOTLESS TOWN IN SPOTTY CROW HILL (1903) If you lived in a #brownstone in this Crown Heights nabe, heating wasn't your problem...
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A close-up shows the devastation. ;)
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THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF EAST FLATBUSH - 5755 Kings Highway b/w Church & Snyder Avenues c. 1940. How did such a house ever exist? Might it still? Apartments behind it one block east on E. 59th St.
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ROMEO & JULIET “COME TO” BROOKLYN (1866) How this 1-block #BedStuy "place" was an afterthought...
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...and here are the #Fedders buildings when they appeared to be under construction, c. 1982. (o/o @nycrecords)
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