School

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.

Rev. Father Emil Strenski.

reference: Real Estate Record & Builders' Guide, 11 January 1919 (v. 103, no. 2), 61.

St. Virgilius parish was founded in 1922. Now merged with St. Camilius parish in Rockaway.801

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. It is like the others that have been mentioned, a two story brick building, with a frontage of 46 feet and a depth of 92.

Constructed as the episcopal residence for the Bishop of the Brooklyn Diocese.1 Now LaSalle Hall, a residence hall for students (at Bishop Loughlin HS?). The Bishop's residence is now located on Clinton Avenue, in the former Charles Millard Pratt residence.