Below is a small representation of the hundreds of investigations we’ve performed into our clients’ New York City properties. For each, we’ve produced a House History Book or House History Report. Contact us today to discover the history of YOUR house.
********************************************************************************************************************************* 213 East 8th Street – is a turn-of-the-century limestone rowhouse built in the early days of the area’s promotion as the UK-inspired Kensington. Before the idea of a house was even imagined, the land was part of the extensive farmlands granted by Peter Stuyvesant to Brooklyn’s oldest established church, the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church in Flatbush. When the farms in Flatbush began to be sold off in the 1860s, speculators, investors, industrialists, and railroad men, with such names as Turner, Hinckley, and Lott, began to snap up the lots, multiple plots at a time. By 1906, the architectural renderings for a 2-family structure were filed with the Department of Buildings and the house – along with nine others on the block – was constructed and, subsequently, sold to its first owner.

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The Brownstone Detectives

Brownstone Detectives is an historic property research agency. Our mission is to document and save the histories of our clients’ homes. From our research, we produce our celebrated House History Books and House History Reports. Contact us today to begin discovering the history of your home.