St. Matthew's Evangelical Lutheran Church was a German congregation, established in February, 1864 in a tenement house on North 3rd Street between Kent and Wythe. That same year, the congregation purchased the former Williamsburgh city jail on North 5th Street between Driggs and Roebling and converted the building into a church, which was opened on August 28, 1864.
3 apartment buildings, replaced the Lee Avenue Congregational Church.
"An architect, died at his home in Brooklyn, New York, March 11, 1911, aged fifty-two. He was born in Brooklyn.
M.A.C.C. Arms #2, built by Metropolitan Avenue Construction Company. MACC was founded by Crescenzo Simonelli, a builder active in East Williamsburg starting in 1905. Together, Simonelli & Kunzi developed a number of buildings in East Williamsburg in the late 1920s.
Kunzi was an architect active in East Williamsburg, Maspeth and Long Island City from the 1910s through the 1940s. In 1920, he ran for state senate on the Republican line, narrowly losing to the Democratic incumbent.
Three-story wood-frame tenement, constructed in 1881. The building got a new facade (probably asphalt in a faux brick pattern) prior to 1940. Now vinyl sided, with California stucco at the ground floor.
Source: Real Estate Record & Builders Guide, vol. 28, no. 702 (August 27, 1881), 848.
This building was originally constructed as the Union Methodist Episcopal Church in 1900, replacing the previous Leonard Street Methodist Episcopal Church. Union M.E. was the result of the merger of three local Methodist Episcopal churches - Leonard Street M.E. Church (founded in 1870), Powers Street M.E. Church and Gothic M.E. Church (founded circa 1835). Powers and Gothic merged in 1895 or so; three years later Powers and Leonard merged to form the Union M.E. Church.
Offices at 194 Bowery, Manhattan (1914)
Building information: Real Estate Record & Builders' Guide, July 11, 1914.