437 MacDonough Street

Three-story brownstone on MacDonough Street, on the block between Malcolm X Boulevard, laid out as Reid Avenue, and Patchen Avenue. Henry B. Hill built and designed most of that block, and the row was complete by the spring of 1892, its fronts run in brown, red and Euclid stone. Hill had joined his father Amzi's office at 1161 Fulton Street in 1889 and practiced through at least 1902; between them the two men drew so much of MacDonough Street that later writers have suggested the street be renamed for them. Farther along the same block, 473 MacDonough is documented as Hill's, dated 1892.

Two years after the row went up, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle walked MacDonough and called it "a thoroughfare lined with trees and ivy," a street that had turned down the uniform brownstone front in favor of varied architecture, with this block almost filled and its stonework carved with unusual care. The street carries the name of Thomas Macdonough, the naval officer who took Lake Champlain from the British on 11 September 1814. Three blocks off, the city set aside Fulton Park in 1902 and bought the land in 1904; it holds a bronze Robert Fulton cast in 1955, after the 1872 zinc figure by Caspar Buberl that once stood in a niche of the Fulton Ferry House.

2,466 square feet over three floors, offered as a single tenancy. The kitchen sits at the center of the parlor floor, Sub-Zero, Wolf and Miele set behind a carved screen and deep window casings that were kept, along with pocket doors, pocket shutters, waist-high wainscot and five original mantels. Above, two bedrooms and two and a half baths, with a private balcony at the back. The garden level is a self-contained one-bedroom with its own kitchen and French doors to the yard, where a magnolia stands over most of the ground. Central air, washer and dryer, video security, a full basement, and the A and C on Fulton Street a few blocks south.

A hundred and thirty-four years after Hill closed out the row, the whole of one of its houses is available now, on a twelve-month lease.