Stephen W. Dodge & Robert Morrison.
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Church was founded in 1869. The first structure used by the congregation was a former public hall on Cumberland Street.
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Architect of St. Luke's German Evangelical Lutheran Church (1894), St. Mark's Protestant Episcopal Church, 222 Adelphi Street (Marshall & Walters, 1888), Memorial Presbyterain Church (Pugin & Walter, 1882-83), Chapel and Sunday School (Marshall & Walter, 1883), Seventh Avenue & St. John's Place.
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Continental Army Plaza was historically known as Washington Plaza and Williamsburg Plaza. The park was designed by architects Lord & Hewlett, and the statue of George Washington at Valley Forge was the work of Henry M. Shrady.
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The original Church of St. Rose of Lima was constructed 1870. The wood-frame Gothic-style church was designed by Thomas F. Houghton. The church, with a capacity of 300, was the first Catholic church to serve the people of the Greenfield section of southern Brooklyn.
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First mass on the morning of August 4, 1889, in the second floor of the frame building at 1747 Fulton Street.
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Constructed in 1891 by furrier Louis Zechiel, this 5-story loft building sits at the junction of South 8th Street and Broadway, which gives the buildings its splayed plan form.
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In the late 19th century, Theobald Engelhardt was North Brooklyn’s most prolific architect. He designed hundreds of buildings, from small wood-frame tenements to massive factories to grand institutional structures, many of them for Williamsburg’s and Bushwick’s German-American community. And, as it turns out, at least one cast-iron building.
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This panorama view of Williamsburg Bridge Plaza, created from two ca. 1908 images from the Library of Congress. At the far left in the photo is the cast-iron building at 242 Broadway (Theobald Engelhardt, 1891). Immediately to the left of the bridge is the Williamsburgh Savings Bank building, and the the right of the bridge is the Williamsburgh Trust Company building, under construction.