St. Matthew's Evangelical Lutheran Church was a German congregation, established in February, 1864 in a tenement house on North 3rd Street between Kent and Wythe. That same year, the congregation purchased the former Williamsburgh city jail on North 5th Street between Driggs and Roebling and converted the building into a church, which was opened on August 28, 1864.
M.A.C.C. Arms #2, built by Metropolitan Avenue Construction Company. MACC was founded by Crescenzo Simonelli, a builder active in East Williamsburg starting in 1905. Together, Simonelli & Kunzi developed a number of buildings in East Williamsburg in the late 1920s.
Building information: Real Estate Record & Builders' Guide, July 11, 1914.
“Buildings Projected,” Real Estate Record & Builders’ Guide 19, no. 477 (n.d.): 365.
Originally constructed as a three story building, the top floor was removed after 1940. “Buildings Projected,” Real Estate Record & Builders’ Guide 19, no. 479 (n.d.): 413.
“Buildings Projected,” Real Estate Record & Builders’ Guide 19, no. 484 (n.d.): 514.