Astately brick Greek Revival townhouse at 182 Clinton Street in Brooklyn Heights got a lightning-speed makeover by 16 design firms in the 2024 Brooklyn Heights Designer Showhouse, which debuted this week. Having been given less than a month to transform the space, they’ve been working in overdrive to make finishing touches. It feels far from hurried, though. Throughout the row house, guests will observe an ethereal mural that spans the entryway and three-story staircase, chocolate-hued high-gloss ceilings in the study, and a glorious wildflower-inspired yellow bedroom.
The property, originally built for Isaac Wood, M.D., in the late 1840s, sits on a Brooklyn street that in the 18th century was called Doctor's Row. (Fun fact: Under Wood’s residence, it was the site of the first Alcoholics Anonymous meeting.) The home saw a series of longtime single-family homes being reconfigured into multifamily housing before World War II, then being converted back to single-family in the 1990s.