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Four identical buildings at this location; 224 Hewes Street may be a fourth building in this development.

Source: Real Estate Record & Builders' Guide (vol. 14, no 337, August 29, 1874), 147.

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Source: Real Estate Record & Builders' Guide (vol. 14, no 337, August 29, 1874), 146.

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Source: Real Estate Record & Builders' Guide (vol. 14, no 338, September 5, 1874), 164.

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Source: Real Estate Record & Builders' Guide (vol. 14, no 338, September 5, 1874), 164.

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Architect listed as "B. Gallagho", assumed to be Gallagher (an active architect in the Eastern District).
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The Lignum Chemical Company was founded by Edward Goett in 1886. The building shown in the 1911 letterhead was probably constructed between 1905 and 1911, and was destroyed by a fire in November 1913.
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The Meeker Avenue Bridge was a steel truss bridge that spanned Newtown Creek. The bridge opened on August 23, 1939 and replaced an earlier swing bridge that connected Greenpoint to Maspeth. The cost of construction was between $6 million and $13 million.

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Talbot Hamlin (1889-1956) was an architect and academic active in the design of ecclesiastical architecture. Hamlin graduated from Amherst College in 1910 and Columbia University's Architecture School in 1914. His early practice included a number of projects in China. Starting in 1920, he was affiliated with Henry McGill.

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"Mr. Frederick B. Smith, artist, author and actor, has disposed of a lot at the corner of Broadway and Eleventh [Hooper] street, to Mr. Thomas Bell, the grocer. He has engaged Messrs. Quinn & Reilly to to erect a four story store and dwelling, twenty-five by fifty feet.