"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. Ditmar [sic] is the architect." 1
Now St. Elias Greek Rite Catholic Church
- 1"Church Improvements in Brooklyn", Brooklyn Eagle, 21 July 1869 (pg. 2)