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Frank Holmberg

Frank Holmberg (September, 1850

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153 South 4th Street

NB listing does not mention builder; Doenecke is assumed.1. Doenecke & Bros.

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235 South 1st Street

RERBG v. 64, no. 1647 (October 7, 1899)

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A Brief Dry Spell for the U.S.S. Monitor

Conservation of the Monitor's turret is a slow process. The turret was salvaged off of Cape Hatteras over a decade ago, and the process will take another 15 years.

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Brooklynology has a lengthy post on Peter Cooper and his glue factory that was once one of the major foulers of Newtown Creek. Cooper's glue factory stood not too far from Peter Cooper Houses, the NYCHA development in East Williamsburg. And also not too far from the stockyards and abbatoirs that dominated the area of East Williamsburg south of Grand Street at the turn of the century.

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The Long, Hot Road

NPR had a brief piece on the dispute over who deserves credit for inventing the air conditioner - Willis Carrier (who invented the air conditioner) or John Gorrie (who seems to have developed the concept of the refrigerator). What NPR doesn't mention is that the long, hot road to modern air conditioning passed right through Brooklyn.

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Graham & Metropolitan

70 years on, all of the buildings in Berenice Abbott's photo of Graham and Metropolitan remain, but the view sure has changed. Amazingly, there is still a lot of architecture left behind many of our faux-clad buildings. Here, though, the cornices and tower have been lost.

235 South 1st Street

RERBG v. 64, no. 1647 (October 7, 1899)

Plan # 1833 - South 1st st, ne cor Roebling st, 4-sty brk factory, 25x72, steam heat, galvanized cornice, cost, $6,500; Adam [H?] Schulz, 267 Grand st; ar't, A E Fischer, 1123 Broadway, NY

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East Reformed Dutch Church

From http://www.nycago.org/Organs/Bkln/index.html
Bedford Reformed Church (Bedford-Stuyvesant)
1160 Bedford Avenue at Madison Street (1875-disbanded 1904) – ren. Bedford Ref. (1879) – became Scottish Rite Cathedral; then Miller Memorial Nazarene Church; now Community Worship Center of the Church of the Nazarene
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Bedford Avenue, near Jefferson Street (1854-1875) – known as East Reformed Dutch Church
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