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.
Source: Real Estate Record & Builders Guide, vol. 28, no. 702 (August 27, 1881), 848.
“Buildings Projected,” Real Estate Record & Builders’ Guide 19, no. 477 (n.d.): 365.
“Buildings Projected,” Real Estate Record & Builders’ Guide 19, no. 484 (n.d.): 514.
Real Estate Record lists this as two buildings on Grand Street, "ss, 80 w Bushwick av". The description would point to 806 and 808 Grand Street, however these are part of a larger row of Italianate buildings and 806 is only 25' wide.
Block of 8 dwellings and stores, on the south side of Grand Street starting one building west of Leonard Street.
A rare (and perhaps early?) non-ecclesiastical building designed by Thomas Houghton.
Source: “Buildings Projected,” Real Estate Record & Builders’ Guide, (August 18, 1882): 783.
Possibly part of a pair of buildings (152 Broadway, to the west, was heavily altered between 2005 and 2007). Real Estate Record & Builders' Guide (v. 15, no. 366, March 20, 1875), 204.
"...two three-story frame tenements, 25x58, on the south side of Jefferson street, 200 east of Central avenue, for Matthew Kaicher, to cost $9,500..."1