Building of the Day: 1474 Pacific Street
The BOTD is a no-frills look at interesting structures of all types and from all neighborhoods. There will be old, new, important, forgotten, public, private, good and bad. Whatever strikes our fancy. We hope you enjoy. Address: 1474 Pacific Street, between Kingston and Albany Avenues Name: Wood frame house Neighborhood: Crown Heights North Year Built:…
The BOTD is a no-frills look at interesting structures of all types and from all neighborhoods. There will be old, new, important, forgotten, public, private, good and bad. Whatever strikes our fancy. We hope you enjoy.
Address: 1474 Pacific Street, between Kingston and Albany Avenues
Name: Wood frame house
Neighborhood: Crown Heights North
Year Built: 1870’s
Architectural Style: Italianate
Architects: Unknown
Landmarked: No
Why chosen: Crown Heights North doesn’t have very many wood frame houses, so this is a rare beauty. This has more original detail than a better known grouping a couple of blocks away, on Dean Street, which is in the CHN Historic District. This one is part of a row, but the only one not covered in vinyl siding. It needs a little TLC, but everything is there the shingle shakes, the original doors, the intact cornice and brackets, the intact window and door frames and matching ornament. We have a lot of rich and impressive houses in CHN, this still remains one of my favorites, for the degree of preservation, and for its charm.
House yum.
A charming post on a delightful house. I had no idea these gothic doors could be as late as the 1870s. Thanks, Montrose.
I understand that there are strict regulations on wood siding for housing in nyc; what’s the deal with renovating a place like this- can you replace the shingles with more shingles, or do you have to toss them out and use some sort of non-flammable faux shingle?
Perhaps, cyrka66. Next door to the right might still have the cornice under that siding. The brackets are probably gone, or cut off at the bottom. The shingles may be underneath as well, but the window frames are gone. Sometimes they just slapped the siding up there in the cheapest, most labor saving method they could, and the original details are underneath. What condition they are in, is a whole other story.
Do you think it’s possible the adjacent ones still have some original detailing under the vinyl siding?
“The only one not covered in vinyl siding.”
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I love this little house. Someone needs to buy it for me (I’m looking at you, Cgar!)
What a gem! Love the doorway.
What a charming house, MM. Reminds me of the house on the cover of that Little Golden Book the name of which escapes me.