Margaret Wise Brown birthplace
118 Milton Street | Greenpoint | built 1868
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1867
Thomas C. Smith builds the Second Empire houses at Nos. 116-120 Milton Street
Nos. 116, 118 and 120 Milton Street went up in 1867-68 as three Second Empire houses built by Thomas C. Smith, a builder, architect and developer who also owned a porcelain factory on Eckford Street. Nos. 118 and 120 together make one semi-detached two-family house, set apart from the adjoining houses by yards, with a mansard third floor. The 1982 designation report names George W. Hosmer as an early resident of No. 118.
“Nos. ll6, ll8 and 120 comprise a group of three Second Empire style houses built by Thomas C. Smith in 1867-68.”
- 1910
Margaret Wise Brown is born at 118 Milton Street
Margaret Wise Brown was born here on May 23, 1910, the second child of Robert and Maude Brown, a young married couple who had settled in Greenpoint from Kirkwood, Missouri. Brooklyn Public Library's literary map marker quotes biographer Leonard S. Marcus on her earliest memories, which included a city street with high iron gates on Milton Street, then a fashionable part of Greenpoint, as she recalled in an autobiographical sketch.
Source: bklynlibrary.org
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