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Throop Avenue Presbyterian Church, ca. 1905. The Throop Avenue Presbyterian Church was founded in 1852 and their original church building was completed in 1867.The congregation grew over the next few decades and by the 1880s the leaders had decided a new building was needed. Architects Fowler & Hough were commissioned for the new church, and they designed a Romanesque Revival brick building with a tall bell tower. Constructed began in 1889 but disaster struck a few months into the project. On a cold and windy morning in January of 1890 a gust of wind picked up the entire brick wall of one side of the church (no roof had been constructed yet) and tossed it onto the wood-frame house next door. The house was destroyed and two children were killed with a number of other family members injured. The church paid for the funerals and all related costs. The church was completed following the disaster and dedicated in 1891. The church suffered a massive fire in 1910 and the community decided against rebuilding on the plot that had already seen so much tragedy. The congregation moved to a new location at 257 Macon Street in Stuyvesant Heights before finally moving to Rosedale, Queens where the church is now known as Throop Memorial Church.

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Throop Avenue Presbyterian Church

Brooklyn: Throop Ave. - Hart St. (1) Throop Ave., west side, north from, but not including Hart to Willoughby Streets, showing the Throop Ave. Presbyterian Church, which had its origin in a mission established in 1852, on the corner of Throop Ave., and Bartlett Street. The church as such was organized on June 8, 1862, at Throop Ave., near Hopkins Street. In 1867 it moved to a small frame building at the S.W. corner of Throop and Willoughby Aves. The cornerstone of this building, was laid on November 2, 1889. A part of the wall fell during a storm on January 9, 1890. The edifice was opened for service on November 2, 1890; shortly thereafter it was destroyed by fire. A new site was later acquired at the corner of Throop Ave. and Macon Street. October 12, 1911. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection.
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604 Marcy Avenue

Board of Water Supply. Laying water distribution pipes. Southwest corner of Marcy Avenue, looking west. A milk delivery at the corner of Willoughby Avenue and Marcy Avenue in Brooklyn, where lengths of pipe line the street during construction. The Alexander Campbell Milk Company distributed milk in glass bottles from wagons that began their daily routes at 2 a.m. Campbell claimed to have built the first creamery for bottled milk in the United States and developed the first glass bottle for milk by 1910. It merged with Borden's Farm Products in 1918. The grocery selling "milk, butter, eggs, and fancy groceries" and displaying a pyramid of sardine cans is gone�replaced eventually by the Red Gate Community Garden�but the brownstones on the right are still standing. Construction at this corner was particularly tricky because the water pipe had to cross underneath the existing brick sewer. September 23, 1914.