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Norman avenue and Diamond street, three four-story buff brick and Indiana limestone tenements, 25x65; cost, $25,000; John Nuffe, owner; John M. Baker, No. 27 Hart street. archltect. 1

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John M. Baker

ca. 1897 - located at 27 Hart Street 1

170 - 174 Norman Avenue (1897)

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From Shorpy, a photo of a model two-room tenement constructed within the Museum of Natural History as part of a 1908 "Congestion Exhibition". The model tenement was built by the Association for Practical Housekeeping Centres as part of a display on housekeeping courses the Association offered to tenement women.

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Matchett Candy Factory

Plan #2469 - South 4th st, s w cor Wythe av, one six-story brk factory, 105x90, gravel roof, brk cornice; cost, $30,000; Albert Green, Duane st, New York, b’r, not selected; ar’t, W. H. Biers [sic] 1

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William H. Beers

Designed the Liebmann Building and the Manufacturers Building (1899-1900) in Brooklyn and the Stoddard Building on Fulton Street. Offices in Manhattan from 1879 to 1900.

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38 Roebling Street

ROEBLING ST,- Weson [sic] Longman & Co., 207 Pearl st, Manhattan will build a 4-sty factory, 200x55 ft., on Roebling st, west side, between North 9th and 10th sts, to cost $55,000, W. Ryan, 102 Ryerson st, is preparing plans.