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354 91st Street
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Firefighters battle a blaze at a partially completed apartment building on 91st Street between Third and Fourth Avenues, June 1929. The New York Times reported that "a great crowd watched the apartment house fire" on 91st Street. The apartment building was unoccupied when fire was first spotted by a police officer, late in the afternoon of June 2. However, high winds caused the blaze to spread: "Sparks swept on a stiff wind ignited a garage across the street and started roof fires, all trifling, in three frame dwellings in the vicinity. Embers were carried a quarter of a mile to the Army reservation at Fort Hamilton. A one-story warehouse of the Quartermaster Corps took fire and was burned." While firefighters fought the spread of flames, a 91st Street resident prevailed in gaining access to her imperiled home in order to recover certain valuables: "The police ordered the Seatti family to stay out of the house. Mrs. Robert Brandon, however, a tenant, insisted that valuable securities must be rescued. Firemen finally accompanied Mrs. Brandon to her quarters and she came out with the securities. They consisted of $10 and two strawberry shortcakes she had made for her son's birthday party."
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Monastery of the Visitation
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VISITATION ACADEMY 8902 Ridge Boulevard, 1913 This private girls’ school was designed in the Italian neo-Renaissance style. The beige brick chapel features circular windows on its upper stories, triangular gables, a square tower with an arcaded belfry and decorative cruciform brickwork on its south façade. The entire complex is surrounded by a 20-foot stone and concrete wall. The site was previously home to the Kings County Inebriate Asylum and a natural glacier lake exists on the grounds.
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Fort Hamilton Branch, BPL ca. 1939 9424 4th Avenue Designed by Lord & Hewlett, 1906 The Fort Hamilton Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library began as a small book collection donated by Mrs. Gelston of Shore Road in the 1890s. Thanks to a gift from steel magnate Andrew Carnegie in 1901, the library was expanded and this modest the building was constructed. Recently restored, the building is clad in red brick with horizontal black brick courses and features a dentilled cornice and limestone window sills and doorway surrounds.

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Trinity Lutheran Church

Breaking ground for church Five men (one wearing military uniform, three wearing clerical attire), one woman (wearing military uniform) and four small children (several other spectators in background) standing in yard. Man in center has left foot on shovel. Caption: "Breaking ground for church--The Rev. Walter C. Martin, pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church, wields shovel at groundbreaking for new church at 91st St. and 3d Ave. Left to right are the Rev. Edwald Mueller, paster \[sic] of Immanuel Church, who was the principal speaker; the Rev. R. W. Matzger, assistant pastor of Trinity Church, and Frank D. Staats, president of the church council."
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Trinity Lutheran Church

Church dedicated Group standing in front of church: young men and women wearing choir robes, two men wearing clerical attire, and one man wearing suit; residential building on far left. Caption: "Church dedicated--Flanked by choir, the Rev. Walter C. Martin, pastor of Trinity Luthern \[sic] Church \[91st Street and 3rd Avenue], receives key to new church edifice from Frank D. Staats, president of the congregation, at dedication of the congregation's new house of worship yesterday."
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9018 3 Avenue

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Trinity Lutheran Church

Lay church cornerstone Three men in clerical attire standing around cornerstone: man on left holds trowel in right hand, book in left hand; the other two men hold documents. Many spectators watch ceremony. Caption: "Lay church cornerstone--The Rev. Walter C. Martin, pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church holds trowel over cornerstone for his new church building at 91st St. and 3d Ave. Participating in the ceremony is the Rev. Robert W. Metzger, center, assistant pastor, and the Rev. Walter C. Daib, former pastor of the church and now minister of the St. James Lutheran Church in Woodside."
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