A butter-yellow Italianate wood-frame house on South Oxford Street in Fort Greene may soon be demolished, as developers have filed applications to replace it with a five-story apartment building, according to Brownstoner.
The 1860 residence at 158 South Oxford St., between Hanson Place and Atlantic Avenue, is one of a shrinking number of surviving wooden houses in the neighborhood. In 2010, the home was highlighted by Brownstoner as a rare and well-preserved example of its kind, notable for its Gothic-trimmed porch and symmetrical windows.
At the time, the property was included in a proposed expansion of the Fort Greene Historic District, but that expansion was never approved. As a result, the house does not have landmark protection, the news site said…