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Building information: Real Estate Record & Builders' Guide, July 11, 1914.

Demolished circa 2017 to 2019. Original construction information from Real estate record and builders' guide (v. 69, no. 1784: May 24, 1902), page IX.

Part of the Eberhard Faber Historic District. The only building in the district that was not purpose-built as a factory for the Eberhard Faber Pencil Co.

Source: Real Estate Record & Builders Guide, vol. 28, no. 702 (August 27, 1881), 848.

“Buildings Projected,” Real Estate Record & Builders’ Guide 19, no. 477 (n.d.): 365.

Originally constructed as a three story building, the top floor was removed after 1940. “Buildings Projected,” Real Estate Record & Builders’ Guide 19, no. 479 (n.d.): 413.

“Buildings Projected,” Real Estate Record & Builders’ Guide 19, no. 484 (n.d.): 514.

This building at 125 Eagle Street looks like it was once something, and sure enough it was. It was built in 1891 as the Children's Mission, a project of the Greenpoint Reformed Church on Kent Street. The Mission was established on November 20, 1881 as a Sunday school occupying a storefront on Eagle Street. The school quickly grew, adding rooms in a nearby building, but by 1883 those accommodations were already insufficient and the children of the school began raising money for a new building. Over the course of seven or eight years the students raised about $1,500.