The Woodframe House

 This 16’ wide (+/-15’ interior width) house began as a sagging 2-family with cramped rooms and little light. With no original details to speak of, the clients were free to start fresh and maximize every inch.

 The Wooden House Project is a

Brooklyn-based initiative that encourages wooden home owners to get involve with the preservation of standing and historically significant wooden houses in Brooklyn.  

Photography: Allyson Lubow and Dean DeCarlo 

One of Greenwich Village’s oldest remaining wooden frame homes has hit the market in New York, and it’s filled with well-preserved period details. 

 It looks like an old Harlem Warren-Nash car on the left of the frame poking its nose into the photograph next to two beautiful wood frame houses at 

427 West 126th Street in Harlem, New York, in 1932. 

 412 East 85th Street is a rare surviving example of a wood-frame building in Upper Manhattan. Built by an anonymous craftsman, the house is one of only six wood-frame buildings still standing in this section of the city.  

A handful of nineteenth-century wood houses were carefully maintained, have survived, and are grandfathered into the building code. There are a few in my neighborhood and each time I pass one it conjures up the Dream Home.

 In New York City, a developer got an exemption to build rental buildings using mostly timber. A rendering of a rental building in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, that is being constructed by Frame Home, a new development firm, using mostly wood. 

 Outlawed south of 86th Street in 1866, wood-frame houses are a rarity in Manhattan. So when you find one tucked into an otherwise ordinary Upper East Side block, it’s hard not to fall for its charming cornice and clapboard shutters.

The woodframe house at 324 55th St is completely sweet and charming!

The historic brooklyn townhouse by Joseph Vance, is the perfect example of the beauty and value created by restoring wood frame homes to their original glory.

Wood frame houses are something I truly appreciate and understand the value of. I adore seeing these homes restored to their former glory.

 Going for $3.75 million with 5 beds and 3.5 baths, 357 Washington Ave boasts elegant window enframements and its original clapboard facade, constructed circa 1860.

 233-243 11th Street in 1930 and today

The wood-frame house at 17 Grove Street in the West Village was built in 1822. And it has remained largely intact in the area for the past 197 years.

The powdery blue sky melts seamlessly into this Dean Street cottage. 

by  Travis Mark

The 4,007-square-foot, seven-bedroom spread at 24 Middagh St. is one of New York City’s few remaining wood-frame row houses — and it’s on the market.

The humble wood-frame house doesn’t always get as much love as the iconic brownstone in Brooklyn, but that’s starting to change as preservation-minded owners restore them across the borough. 

Here are some tips for restoring wood-frame homes.

 Mar 20th 2019; Brownstone Detectives investigates the history of our clients’ homes.

The story you are about to read was composed from research conducted in the course of one of those investigations.