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BUSHWICK AV. - Wm. C. Winters, 106 Van Siclen av, has plans in progress for three 2-sty brick dwellings. 20x63 ft, on Bushwick av, near Kosciusko st, for Dr. Packman, owner, care of architect. Total cost, $36,000.

FOSTER AV. - Hobart B. Upjohn, 456 4th av, Manhattan, has plans in progress for a church at the corner of Foster av and East 23d st for Flatbush Presbyterian Church, Rev. Herbert Field, pastor, 657 East 23d st, owner. Cost, $90,000. Architect will take bids on general contract in the spring.

CHURCHES.

Source: Real estate record and builders' guide: v. 109, no. 12: March 25, 1922

[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.

Existing building is 4 stories.

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

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.]

Charles Pierrepont Henry Gilbert.

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

"The Methodist Episcopal Tabernacle at Greenpoint has just been built of brick, with brown stone facings, at a cost of $50,000." 

Laying of the cornerstone attended by 10,000 people, let by Bishop Loughlin. Construction was "begun on the second day of June under the superintendence of Mr. P. C. Keeley [sic], architect, who numbers this as his three hundred and eighty fifth church edifice he has been engaged in building on this continent.