I love stumbling upon buildings like this. This is 78 Cambridge Place in Clinton Hill Brooklyn. It was most likely built in 1860 for Jeremiah Peterson. At the time it was built this was a free standing house which would have been something to see. This area of Brooklyn was an upper middle class enclave, just a short jaunt over to the Fulton Ferry. However because it was built on the property line and there are no windows on the free standing side, it is likely to assume that the builder didn’t think it would be alone for long. It is also more than likely that this house had a front porch when it was first built. For any of my millennial followers this kind of gives me the vibes of the cover of the “I SPY” books from the Scholastic book fairs. 78 Cambridge Place was landmarked as a part of the Clinton Hill Historic District on November 10th, 1981.