Four identical buildings at this location; 224 Hewes Street may be a fourth building in this development.
Source: Real Estate Record & Builders' Guide (vol. 14, no 337, August 29, 1874), 147.
Source: Real Estate Record & Builders' Guide (vol. 14, no 337, August 29, 1874), 146.
Source: Real Estate Record & Builders' Guide (vol. 14, no 338, September 5, 1874), 164.
Source: Real Estate Record & Builders' Guide (vol. 14, no 338, September 5, 1874), 164.
The Meeker Avenue Bridge was a steel truss bridge that spanned Newtown Creek. The bridge opened on August 23, 1939 and replaced an earlier swing bridge that connected Greenpoint to Maspeth. The cost of construction was between $6 million and $13 million. The bridge had two 32'-wide roadways separated by a 4'-wide mall as well as two 8'-wide walkways "protected by high curbs and barricades".
In July 1940 the bridge was renamed in honor of Polish general Tadeusz Kościuszko, a hero of the American Revolution.
Talbot Hamlin (1889-1956) was an architect and academic active in the design of ecclesiastical architecture. Hamlin graduated from Amherst College in 1910 and Columbia University's Architecture School in 1914. His early practice included a number of projects in China. Starting in 1920, he was affiliated with Henry McGill. The two worked together in various partnerships from 1921 to 1930. From 1934 until his death in 1956, Hamlin was the Librarian at Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library at Columbia University.