A few years ago I was researching a building at No. 64 East 4th Street, which was part of Albion Place, a row of early, Greek Revival style houses built in 1832. They were designed as a unified, harmonious composition, with the two center houses and two end houses projecting a few feet beyond the others to form a centerpiece and bookends for the row. The two middle houses, Nos. 66 and 68, became a Turn Verein in 1872. According to my research, that's the Turn Verein that moved up to Yorkville in 1897. There's a wonderful photograph from 1875 (New-York Historical Society) showing the new Turn Verein and a few of the other buildings in the row on either side. By that time Nos. 66 and 68 had been given a fourth floor and other changes, but the two houses to the left retained much of their 1832 appearance. I can't seem to attach the photo here, but it's worth looking up.
Very interesting. I hated gym and pretty much all sports while in school, so now I know whom to thank for that. I live in a suburb of very German Milwaukee. There's a popular concert venue there called Turner Hall Ballroom. I always assumed that it was associated with someone named Turner but I looked it up and sure enough, it's located in what was the Milwaukee Turners' headquarters.
So interesting and relevant, the mid-1800s background here. I'm a born and raised Brooklynite and in my high school -- early/mid 1960s -- I was the only Black kid in my class. Others were mostly Irish and Italian. My closest buddy was a German-American Catholic.
Notable to me in your piece was the 1937 foreclosure. My grandfather had a home foreclosed in 1937, on Throop Ave. (in what became Bed-Stuy) -- in 1937. The crafty guy, Bert Baker (the Boss of Black Brooklyn), three years later was able to acquire a brownstone one block over.
A few years ago I was researching a building at No. 64 East 4th Street, which was part of Albion Place, a row of early, Greek Revival style houses built in 1832. They were designed as a unified, harmonious composition, with the two center houses and two end houses projecting a few feet beyond the others to form a centerpiece and bookends for the row. The two middle houses, Nos. 66 and 68, became a Turn Verein in 1872. According to my research, that's the Turn Verein that moved up to Yorkville in 1897. There's a wonderful photograph from 1875 (New-York Historical Society) showing the new Turn Verein and a few of the other buildings in the row on either side. By that time Nos. 66 and 68 had been given a fourth floor and other changes, but the two houses to the left retained much of their 1832 appearance. I can't seem to attach the photo here, but it's worth looking up.
Very interesting. I hated gym and pretty much all sports while in school, so now I know whom to thank for that. I live in a suburb of very German Milwaukee. There's a popular concert venue there called Turner Hall Ballroom. I always assumed that it was associated with someone named Turner but I looked it up and sure enough, it's located in what was the Milwaukee Turners' headquarters.
So interesting and relevant, the mid-1800s background here. I'm a born and raised Brooklynite and in my high school -- early/mid 1960s -- I was the only Black kid in my class. Others were mostly Irish and Italian. My closest buddy was a German-American Catholic.
Notable to me in your piece was the 1937 foreclosure. My grandfather had a home foreclosed in 1937, on Throop Ave. (in what became Bed-Stuy) -- in 1937. The crafty guy, Bert Baker (the Boss of Black Brooklyn), three years later was able to acquire a brownstone one block over.
Thanks for the enlightening article