Johnson Avenue
Appears to be the two-story addition to the larger loft building.
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Appears to be the two-story addition to the larger loft building.
Hall associated with Ss. Peter & Paul Parish. The building was contracted as a gift of Mrs. Jeremiah Walsh and named in honor of her brother. References: "Father Malone's Reward", New York Times, August 16, 1897. "The McCadden [sic] Memorial", Brooklyn Daily Eagle, May 6, 1897, 16. "McCaddin Hall Opening", Brooklyn Daily Eagle, November 13, 1898, 30.
Constructed in 1848 for the First Universalist Society of Williamsburgh. The First Universalist Society of Williamsburgh (later All Souls Universalist Church) was founded in 1845 and occupied this site from 1848 until about 1873, when All Souls relocated to South 10th Street. The Fourth Avenue (Bedford Avenue) Methodist Protestant Church acquired the building circa 1873.
The Methodist Protestant congregation was founded in 1832, was a secessionist congregation of the Williamsburgh Methodist Protestant church.
J.J. White, pastor in 1892.
The congregation was organized in 1887 as a mission station by Rev. J.P. Beyer. In 1897, the congregation dedicated a new structure on Knickerbocker Avenue.
Constructed as P.S. 43; later renamed P.S. 59 (Horace Greeley School). Designed by S. B. Leonard1 "School number forty-three has been built for primary purposes on Leonard street near Nassau avenue in Greenpoint.
Top floor removed ca. 1960. Source: Real Estate Record & Builders' Guide, v. 21, no. 532 (May 25, 1878), 467.