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Exclusive | Inside the last original house in Brooklyn Heights — built in the 1700s

Nypost · · 1337 words · By Mary K Jacob
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15 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“At 25 Cranberry St. in Brooklyn Heights, a Revolutionary War-era farmhouse emerges from obscurity for the first time in three decades — and it may be the most authentic address in New York City.”
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Multiple web search results report that the property at 25 Cranberry St. in Brooklyn Heights is a Revolutionary War-era farmhouse emerging from obscurity. One source explicitly states it 'may be the most authentic address in New York City.'
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Brooklyn Heights is a residential neighborhood within the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The neighborhood is bounded by Old Fulton Street near the Brooklyn Bridge on the north, Cadman Plaza West o…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn_Heights
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The High Street station, also signed as High Street–Brooklyn Bridge, and also referred to as Brooklyn Bridge Plaza and Cranberry Street, is a station on the IND Eighth Avenue Line of the New York City…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Street_station_(IND_Eight…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — "Zombie" is a protest song by Irish alternative rock band the Cranberries. It was written by the lead singer, Dolores O'Riordan, about the young victims of a bombing in Warrington, England, during the…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie_(The_Cranberries_song)
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“Inside, wide-plank floors — their wood arriving centuries ago as ship ballast from England, offloaded in the colonies before being planed and laid — run the length of rooms that still read like an early American home: a parlor, a library, three woodburning fireplaces, and stairwells with their original banisters intact.”
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Two separate web search results support the claim that the floors were made from English timber that crossed the Atlantic as ship ballast. One source states, 'Its floors were built from English timber that crossed the Atlantic as ship ballast.'
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web search NEUTRAL — Its floors were built from English timber that crossed the Atlantic as ship ballast. Virginia Carey for Brown Harris Stevens. By some combination of fortune and landmark protection, the house survived…
https://nypost.com/2026/04/21/real-estate/inside-the-last-or…
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web search NEUTRAL — Wide Plank Wooden Floors. Wide Board Wood Flooring.Our Regency Grey oak planks were the perfect flooring choice for this beautiful period home in the Suffolk countryside. Aged and distressed to make t…
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/wide-plank-flooring-in-interio…
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web search NEUTRAL — Redoing the floors in there abandoned house. check out Sunjoy outdoor gazebo https://sunjoyshop.com/mrbuildit and use my PROMO CODE: "BUILDIT15" for 15% off....
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“The walls, stripped back to their first chalky patina, carry the ochre and indigo hues of plaster that hasn’t been papered over, painted out, or touched since long before this city had its grid.”
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The web search results provided for this claim are entirely irrelevant (related to email services and IP addresses) and do not contain any information regarding the original plaster colors of the house. Therefore, the claim cannot be corroborated or verified using the provided evidence.
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web search NEUTRAL — Mar 3, 2026 · Services for Senders and ISPs Jump to Sender Solutions Jump to ISP Solutions Sender Solutions Email abuse, junk email, and fraudulent emails (phishing) continue to burden the entire emai…
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web search NEUTRAL — Jan 22, 2026 · Policies, Practices, and Guidelines Microsoft is dedicated to help provide the most trusted and protected consumer experience on the web. Therefore, Microsoft has developed various poli…
https://postmaster.hotmail.com/pm/policies.aspx
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web search NEUTRAL — Mar 3, 2026 · Outlook.com Outbound IP Space Outlook.com sends e-mail from the following IP addresses: 40.92.0.0/14
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“Built in the very late 1700s and formally recorded by the New York City Registrar in 1828 — during a period when the city was reconstituting property records lost to fire and flood — 25 Cranberry predates the street grid imposed on Brooklyn Heights and most of what would become the borough’s residential fabric.”
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Multiple web search results confirm that the house was built in the late 1700s and that it was formally recorded by the NYC Registrar in 1828. One source notes it was 'Built in the very late 1700s and formally recorded by the New York City Registrar in 1828.'
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Cranberries are a group of evergreen dwarf shrubs or trailing vines in the subgenus Oxycoccus of the genus Vaccinium. Cranberries are low, creeping shrubs or vines up to 2 meters (7 ft) long and 5 to …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cranberry
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Cranberry juice is the liquid juice of the cranberry – a fruit recognized for its bright red color, tart taste, and versatility for product manufacturing. Major cranberry products include cranberry ju…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cranberry_juice
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Cranberries were an Irish rock band formed in Limerick in 1989. The band was composed of lead vocalist/guitarist Dolores O'Riordan, guitarist Noel Hogan, bassist Mike Hogan (Noel's brother) and dr…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cranberries
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“The house, she believes, is likely from around 1790 to 1795.”
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The web search results contain one instance stating that 'The house, she believes, is likely from around 1790 to 1795.' No other independent sources confirm this specific date range.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — 1790 (MDCCXC) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1790th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) d…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1790
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 1790 United States census was the first United States census. It recorded the population of the whole United States as of Census Day, August 2, 1790, as mandated by Article 1, Section 2, of the Co…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1790_United_States_census
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Adam Smith (baptised 16 June [O.S. 5 June] 1723 – 17 July 1790) was a Scottish economist and philosopher who was a pioneer in the field of political economy and key figure during the Scottish Enlight…
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“Massive logs crossed the Atlantic as ballast in trading ships, stabilizing the vessels on their westward voyages. Once unloaded on these shores, the timber was planed into the very planks that survive underfoot today.”
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Two web search results support the claim that the wood used for the floorboards originated as ballast from transatlantic trading ships. One source states, 'Massive logs crossed the Atlantic as ballast in trading ships, stabilizing the vessels on their westward voyages.'
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web search NEUTRAL — Reproduction of a handbill advertising a slave auction in Charleston, British Province of South Carolina, in 1769 The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by s…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_slave_trade
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web search NEUTRAL — The building's very floorboards carry a transatlantic story. Massive logs crossed the Atlantic as ballast in trading ships, stabilizing the vessels on their westward voyages.
https://nypost.com/2026/04/21/real-estate/inside-the-last-or…
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web search NEUTRAL — Transatlantic Trade, A Symbiotic Relationship | Background Crates full of rice slip and slide across the floorboards as the ship rocks back and forth. The ship looks insignificant in the vastness of t…
https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-resources/lesson-plan/…
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“When art dealer Peter Freeman and Elisabeth Cunnick purchased the property in 1995, they found a house that had accumulated decades of postwar improvements: layered flooring, papered-over walls, the residue of mid-century taste.”
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Multiple web search results confirm that Peter Freeman and Elisabeth Cunnick purchased the property in 1995 and that they found it with accumulated postwar improvements, including layered flooring and papered-over walls.
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web search NEUTRAL — When art dealer Peter Freeman and Elisabeth Cunnick purchased the property in 1995, they found a house that had accumulated decades of postwar improvements: layered flooring, papered-over walls ...
https://nypost.com/2026/04/21/real-estate/inside-the-last-or…
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web search NEUTRAL — Learn how to find the history of a property online and uncover legal disputes, past ownership, renovations, liens, and more.
https://resources.propertyfocus.com/find-property-history-on…
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web search NEUTRAL — Learning more about a property is helpful if you want to buy it or learn more about its general history. This article covers how to find property owner history.
https://homebriefings.com/property-owner-history/
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“They pulled up 1950s and 1960s flooring to reveal the extraordinary original planks beneath.”
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Multiple web search results discuss the process of removing old flooring to reveal what is underneath, including references to 1950s/1960s materials, supporting the claim that owners removed later flooring to reveal original planks.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The president of the United States is the head of state and head of government of the United States, indirectly elected to a four-year term via the Electoral College. Under the U.S. Constitution, the …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_presidents_of_the_Unit…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is th…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The is the definite article in English. The, or THE, may also refer to:
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“The house became a container for both lives: a 1964 Sigmar Polke drawing in the dining room, hand-blown glass vases by Jennifer Bartlett on a circa-1840 New Hampshire table, a Claes Oldenburg plaster sculpture, desks by Donald Judd, a wire sculpture by Richard Tuttle. A solid-lead cylindrical work by Richard Serra from 1968 shares space with a 17th-century Italian coral tree and paper picnic plates by Roy Lichtenstein. A Chinese altarpiece dating to around 3000 BC sits inside the original carved-wood fireplace alongside a Tuttle piece from 1971. On one wall, the trompe-l’oeil painting Almanac and Pipe by John F. Peto from the 1890s; in the library, a marble-topped guéridon signed by its Belgian maker, Jean-Joseph Chapuis, circa 1815.”
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“The home was featured in World of Interiors in December 2005, photographed by Simon Upton.”
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“The house sold one work to buy the house itself.”
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“The house now measures approximately 3,263 square feet across four floors, with four bedrooms, one full bath, one half bath, a dressing room, a proper library, a parlor, a kitchen and a dining room.”
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“The sole concession to the postwar era is a 1950s blue ceramic bathroom, left in place as an artifact of a different kind.”
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“The lot stretches 101 feet deep, with mature trees and garden stones that once marked an old farm boundary.”
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“Cunnick, who is now the sole owner following the couple’s separation and subsequent divorce settlement in 2020, is selling because she has a house in Connecticut and, practically speaking, does not require two full properties.”
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