Staten Island's 159-year-old Hamilton Park house | Then and Now

Feb. 9—STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — One of the historic houses in the Hamilton Park community in New Brighton sits at 32 Park Place (circa 1865). It is a two-story brick residence with a mansard roof. It features an Italianate-style cornice. It and two others from the Hamilton Park community were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

In 2012, the house was part of the Preservation League of S.I. house walking tour.

Today, it is hidden behind grown landscaping and wrought iron fencing, but still looks pretty much the same as it did in 1968.

According to Urbanareas.net, Hamilton Park was created circa 1851-1852 and has been called the earliest suburban residential park on Staten Island. The area was separated from the surrounding roads until 1886. It is a large, elevated parcel in New Brighton that runs by today’s streets, including East Buchanan, Franklin, Prospect and York.

Some hints of the original carriage roads that curved through the wooded terrain are still visible.

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