brick

Edward Smith was the founder of Smith-Gray

Real Estate Record & Builders Guide, v. 38, no. 959 (July 31, 1886), 989.

Building appears to be an older row house, and the decription (three stories with iron cornice) does not exactly match this structure, but the site is vacant on an atlas as of 1880, so this is presumably the building described in the 1884 NB application. In 1904, a new building application (#1300) was filed for a new two-story brick school house at the location of the existing school, Helme, Huberty & Co., architects. This building was not constructed and the existing building is roughly consistent with the description of the 1884 structure.

St. Johannes German Evangelical Lutheran (now St. John the Evangelist) Church was founded in 1844 as what appears to be a non-denominational protestant congregation of German-speaking worshippers. At the time, German immigrants were just beginning to arrive in large numbers to the town of Williamsburgh. From 1844 to 1854 the church was located on the corner of Wyckoff (now Ten Eyck) Street and Graham Avenue. The congregation was a mix of Reform, Evangelical and Lutheran congregants and was known as the "German Evangelical Congregation".

"St. Peter's German Evangelical Lutheran Church was organized in 1868 to serve German families in the Bedford area of Brooklyn. The society met for a year on Bedford Avenue, near DeKalb Avenue, before moving in 1869 to the former Puritan Baptist Church on DeKalb Avenue at Walworth Street. On May 13, 1888, the congregation opened their present church, a Gothic Revival building that could accomodate 1,000 persons and cost $70,000. The tower contains a chime of 11 bells cast by Meneely & Co. of Troy, NY, in 1910.

Parish was separated from St. Stanislaus Kostka's parish in 1909 as a separate Polish parish for Williamsburg. Prior to the erection of the church, mass was held at McCaddin Memorial Hall. The cornerstone of the church was laid on May 9, 19101.

Real Estate Record & Builders' Guide, v. 88, no. 2268 (September 2, 1911), 324.

Real Estate Record & Builders' Guide, v. 85, no. 2184 (January 22, 1910), 171.

Three-story non-fireproof convent, north side of Metropolitan, 148' west of Bedford Avenue. 1 Real Estate Record & Builders' Guide, v. 94, no. 2417: Articles (July 11, 1914), 78.