Master masons restoring Clinton Hill's historic façades, stoops, and ironwork since 1995. LPC-approved for Brooklyn historic districts.
Clinton Hill contains the most architecturally ambitious row houses in Brooklyn. Developed as the late-19th-century elite residential area of the borough — the homes of the Pratt and Underwood families and other Gilded Age industrialists — Clinton Hill's mansions and row houses are notably larger and more ornate than those in Park Slope or Fort Greene.
The arrival of streetcar lines in the 1880s and the philanthropic gravitational pull of Charles Pratt's Pratt Institute (founded 1887) drew Brooklyn's wealthy. Pratt himself built three mansions for his children on Clinton Avenue. The result is a neighborhood with both extraordinary individual mansions and finely-detailed row houses on the same streets.
Notable streets: Clinton Avenue, Washington Avenue, Vanderbilt Avenue, Greene Avenue, Dekalb Avenue.
Clinton Hill's larger houses often have masonry detail that simply doesn't exist on smaller brownstones — second-story bay windows with carved spandrels, corner turrets, monumental entry porticos. Restoration projects here frequently require commissioning new carved work to match original detail that has no period catalog equivalent.
Hand-carved replacement of unique architectural ornament; large-scale Romanesque Revival rough-faced brownstone restoration; cornice and parapet work on monumentally-scaled houses; Queen Anne wooden detail restoration and painting; landmark filings for high-visibility properties.
Free on-site assessment. Written estimate within five business days. We know your block.
