The John Rankin House at 440 Clinton Street at the corner of Carroll Street in the

Carroll Gardens Carroll Gardens is a neighborhood in the northwestern portion of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. Taking up around 40 city blocks, it is bounded by Degraw and Warren Streets (north), Hoyt and Smith Streets (east), Ninth Street or the Gowan ...

neighborhood of

Brooklyn Brooklyn () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Kings County, in the U.S. state of New York. Kings County is the most populous county in the State of New York, and the second-most densely populated county in the United States, be ...

, New York City was built in the

Greek Revival style The Greek Revival was an architectural movement which began in the middle of the 18th century but which particularly flourished in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in northern Europe and the United States and Canada, but ...

in 1840, at which time it stood by itself, surrounded by farmland and overlooking Upper New York Bay. p.626 Rankin was a merchant, and the mansion, one of the finest Greek Revival houses in the city, New York City Landmarks Preservation Commissionbr>"John Rankin House Designation Report"
(July 14, 1970) was one of the largest residences in Brooklyn in the 1840s. p.248 It is a three-story, square brick building on a stone foundation. The interior features a massive mahogany stairway with paneled wainscotting. ''See also:'' It was designated a New York City landmark in 1970, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. Currently it is the F. G. Guido Funeral Home.

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* Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Brooklyn New York City Designated Landmarks in Brooklyn Greek Revival architecture in New York City Greek Revival houses in New York (state) Houses completed in 1839 Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn {{Brooklyn-struct-stub