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.
"Union Pl. 70 n. of NW cor. Kent St."
Real Estate Record & Builders' Guide (v. 15, no. 375, May 22, 1875), 361.
Real Estate Record & Builders' Guide (v. 15, no. 368, April 3, 1875), 233.
Real Estate Record & Builders' Guide (v. 15, no. 366, March 20, 1875), 204.
Original address was Orchard Street. Described as Orchard Street, north side, 190' east of Norman Avenue. Real Estate Record & Builders' Guide (v. 15, no. 368, April 3, 1875), 233.
Four-story Italianate tenement with cast-iron lintels and sills. Address at time of construction was 379 Grand Street. Real Estate Record & Builders' Guide (v. 15, no. 368, April 3, 1875), 233.
Possibly part of a pair of buildings (152 Broadway, to the west, was heavily altered between 2005 and 2007). Real Estate Record & Builders' Guide (v. 15, no. 366, March 20, 1875), 204.
Real Estate Record & Builders' Guide (v. 15, no. 362, February 20, 1875), 137.
Smithsonian Hall, the only cast-iron building in Greenpoint, was built by Edward Smith, of Smith, Gray & Co. Gray tapped William F. Gaylor, architect for Smith, Gray & Co.'s Broadway cast-iron buildings, as the architect for this project.