37 Greenpoint Avenue
Part of the Eberhard Faber Historic District. The only building in the district that was not purpose-built as a factory for the Eberhard Faber Pencil Co.
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Part of the Eberhard Faber Historic District. The only building in the district that was not purpose-built as a factory for the Eberhard Faber Pencil Co.
This building at 125 Eagle Street looks like it was once something, and sure enough it was. It was built in 1891 as the Children's Mission, a project of the Greenpoint Reformed Church on Kent Street. The Mission was established on November 20, 1881 as a Sunday school occupying a storefront on Eagle Street. The school quickly grew, adding rooms in a nearby building, but by 1883 those accommodations were already insufficient and the children of the school began raising money for a new building. Over the course of seven or eight years the students raised about $1,500.
"Union Pl. 70 n. of NW cor. Kent St."
Real Estate Record & Builders' Guide (v. 15, no. 375, May 22, 1875), 361.
Real Estate Record & Builders' Guide (v. 15, no. 375, May 22, 1875), 361.
Original address was Orchard Street. Described as Orchard Street, north side, 190' east of Norman Avenue. Real Estate Record & Builders' Guide (v. 15, no. 368, April 3, 1875), 233.
The theater consists of a one-story building fronting on Manhattan Avenue, which serves as the main entrance, and the two-story theater house located to the rear on Lorimer Street.