Peter P. and Rosa M. Huberty House
1019 Bushwick Avenue | Bushwick | built 1900
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- 1900
Peter P. Huberty, a newly elected county clerk, buys a Bushwick Avenue lot for his family's house
Peter Paul Huberty was born in Prussia in 1845, trained as a teacher and emigrated in 1867. He taught in Brooklyn, worked for the police department, was admitted to the bar in 1893 and in 1899 won a two-year term as Kings County Clerk. In 1900 he bought a lot measuring 50 by 85 feet north of Linden Street to build a home for himself and his family.
- 1900
Ulrich Huberty, 23, designs a Colonial Revival house on Bushwick Avenue for his parents
The 2.5-story house is built of brick, terra cotta and galvanized iron, with red brick walls and gray quoins, a hipped roof, a widow's walk and a semicircular portico over an arched entrance. Ulrich Huberty added an open veranda and an unusual number of differently styled dormers. Later extensions between 1909 and 1928 were made to match.
“Designed in the Colonial Revival style by Ulrich J. Huberty, the couple's 23-year-old son…”
- 1909
Peter Huberty moves out and sells the house to builder Jacob Blank
Peter P. Huberty and his family stayed in the house up to 1909, after which he relocated to a smaller home, 938 Bushwick Avenue. He had returned to private law practice after his term as County Clerk. The new owner was Jacob Blank, a builder and businessman from Bushwick, who engaged the firm Helmle & Huberty to add a one-story brick kitchen wing at the back.
“He sold the house to Jacob Blank, a Bushwick builder and businessman, who hired the Helmle & Huberty firm to add a one-story, brick kitchen wing…”
- 1918
The Arion Singing Society leases the Huberty house after its owner's death
Jacob Blank, the Bushwick builder who had bought the house from the Hubertys in 1909, died suddenly in 1916. Two years later, in 1918, his estate rented the house to the Arion Singing Society.
- 1920
Dr. Henry Lerner buys the house and adds extensions for his office and laboratory
In 1920 the heirs of Jacob Blank sold the house to Dr. Henry Lerner, a Brooklyn physician trained at Bellevue. Over the next eight years he had three extensions built to hold his medical office and laboratory. After his death the house was sold again in 1937.
“…the Blank heirs sold the house to Dr. Henry Lerner, a Bellevue-trained, Brooklyn physician, who had three extensions added…”
- 1937
Tailor Luciano Giovinco buys the house, starting eight decades of ownership by one family
The house was sold in 1937 to Luciano Giovinco, a tailor born in Italy whose family had come to Brooklyn around 1900. The same family still owned it when the Landmarks Preservation Commission wrote its report in 2017, which suggests that long ownership likely explains the few, sensitive alterations the house has seen.
- 2017
Landmarks Preservation Commission designates the Huberty House an individual landmark
The commission held its public hearing on June 25, 2013, where four people spoke in favor and three, including the homeowner, spoke against. Its designation report, dated October 24, 2017, says the house contributed to Bushwick Avenue's reputation, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, as a top residential address in Brooklyn.
“Four people spoke in favor of the designation ... Three people, including the homeowner and a member of the homeowner's family spoke in opposition…”
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