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S. Milman & Son

1922: Office listed as 1780 Pitkin Avenue. 1

Congregation Chevra Anawath Israel (1922)

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705 Driggs Avenue

[Plan #] 424 - Driggs st, e s, 80 s Grand st, one four-story iron and brick store, 40 and 46.4 x 45, tin roof, iron cornice; cost, $21,000; E. B. Tuttle, 494 Bedford av; ar't W. H. Gaylor. 1

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181 North 11th Street

Existing building is 4 stories.

Source: Real estate record and builders' guide: v. 42, no. 1070: September 15, 1888 (pg. 1124)

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705-707 Willoughby Avenue

Possibly C. P. H. Gilbert's first Brooklyn commission. These buildings are heavily modified, but there is still some remnant of a historic roof and cresting.

[UPDATE - the two buildings were demolished in early 2018.]

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C. P. H. Gilbert

Charles Pierrepont Henry Gilbert.

C. P. H. Gilbert: The Wild Years (Christopher Gray, Streetscapes)

705-707 Willoughby Avenue (1885)

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Greenpoint Reformed Dutch Church

"The Greenpoint Reformed Dutch Church is going up in K street, near Union avenue. It is to be in the Romanesque style of the French city of Rheims in the thirteenth century. It will be of brick, faced with light and brown stone. It will front 74 feet between the extreme edges of the towers, and will be 95 feet in depth. The cost is to be $50,000. William B.

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William B. Ditmars

William B. Ditmars - not to be confused with Isaac Ditmars, partner of Schickel.

Ditmars was a prolific architect in German parts of the Eastern District. Circa 1873, Ditmars designed the new Eastern District Turn Verein on Meserole Street, with Theobald Engelhardt as his apprentice (and Theobald's father, Philip Engelhardt the contractor/builder).