Built for Catherine Lipsius, widow of Claus Lipsius ([ibib]856[/ibib] page#). The Claus-Lipsius Brewery, also designed by Engelhardt, was located at Forrest Street and Bushwick Avenue, with bottling facilities at Garden Street adn Bushwick Avenue. The Lipsius house is often (and incorrectly) described as the William Ulmer residence - Ulmer's residence (now demolished) was across the street at 680 Bushwick Avenue.
1493 - Belvidere.st, Nos. 31-3.5, n s, 50 w Beaver st, one two and three-story brick machine and boiler house, 86x35. gravel roof, brick cornice; cost, $15,000- Wm. Ulmer, Beaver, cor Belvidere st; ar't, Th. Engelhardt; b'r, S. J. Burrows. 1
1490 - Melrose st, Nos. 156 and 158, s s, 1.50 w Knickerbocker av, two three-story frame (brick filled) tenem'ts, 25x5.5, tin roofs; cost, each, $4,000 Daniel Kreuder and M. Mayer, 47 McKibben st and 342 Ellery st; ar't, Th. Engelhardt; b'rs, D. Kreuder aud M. Mayer.
1491 - Garden st, Nos. 58-66, s s, 14.6 w Bushwick av, one five-story brick ale brewery, 36x60, gravel roof, brick and stone cornice; cost, $15,000; Cluas Lipsius, Bushwick av, cor Forrest st; ar't, Th Engelhardt; b'rs, J. Rauth and J. Rueger. 1
Source: Noda, Roman Catholic Architecture in Queens, New York (Master's thesis, Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation), pg. 810
Dedicated October 3, 1943 by Bishop Molloy1,