Master masons restoring Boerum Hill's historic façades, stoops, and ironwork since 1995. LPC-approved for Brooklyn historic districts.
Boerum Hill is one of Brooklyn's smaller historic districts but contains some of the borough's best-preserved mid-19th-century row houses. Designated in 1973, the district covers about 11 blocks of Greek Revival and Italianate buildings dating from 1845 to 1875.
Boerum Hill was developed as a middle-class neighborhood in the 1840s and '50s, primarily with Greek Revival row houses, followed by an Italianate boom in the 1860s. The neighborhood was relatively poor in the early 20th century, which paradoxically helped preservation — there was no money for the kind of 'modernization' that gutted other neighborhoods in the 1940s and '50s.
Notable streets: State Street, Pacific Street, Dean Street, Bergen Street, Hoyt Street, Bond Street.
Boerum Hill has the highest proportion of original wood interior detail of any Brooklyn historic district — much of which connects to exterior features (entries, stoop assemblies, transom lights). Restoration projects often involve coordinating exterior masonry work with surviving interior wood detail.
Greek Revival entry restoration (sidelights, transoms, original wooden doors); Italianate cornice repair; brownstone stoop reconstruction; original wood window restoration and weatherization; LPC filings for the smaller-scale row houses.
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