Passive House Remake for Quaint Clinton Hill Wood Frame
A rundown and altered Second Empire-style wood frame house at 40 Cambridge Place in Clinton Hill is getting a total redo using Passive House technology. The exterior will be restored to match its twin next door, including windows that appear to be double hung, because it is in the Clinton Hill Historic District. The missing porch and…
A rundown and altered Second Empire-style wood frame house at 40 Cambridge Place in Clinton Hill is getting a total redo using Passive House technology. The exterior will be restored to match its twin next door, including windows that appear to be double hung, because it is in the Clinton Hill Historic District.
The missing porch and altered bay window will be restored. The inside will be retrofitted according to Passive House standards, according to DOB permits.
Right now, the whole thing is shrouded in scaffolding — as is the house next door at 46 Cambridge Place. (That may be to protect it. The house did recently have some work going on inside, but apparently it’s not related to this project.)
When 40 Cambridge was a House of the Day in 2011, we said it had lots of details in and out but appeared to need work. Click through the jump below to see what the exterior looked like in 2012 and to see the house under construction now.
The house last changed hands for $740,00 in 2011. The owner plans to obtain a new certificate of occupancy but will keep it as a two-family, according to permits.
This should be an interesting one to watch.
House of the Day: 40 Cambridge Place [Brownstoner] GMAP
Last photo below by Nicholas Strini for PropertyShark
Above, the house in 2012.
the rendering looks wonderful! do these passive house renovations happen often? i feel like the only construction news i read is either about total breaks from architectural context or big money developments these days.
There probably 20 or so passive house row-house retrofits in Brooklyn. NY Passive House is a good place to start to learn more. http://nypassivehouse.org/
Every November during International Passive House days, many of the in-progress one’s are open to tours.
The Brooklyn based high performance building store, 475, actually created a manual on how to do a historic retrofit
http://foursevenfive.com/product-category/quality-control/books/
This is cutting edge architecture and I hope Brownstoner will start to cover it more!