133-135 Oak Street row houses
133 Oak Street | Greenpoint | built 1901
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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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- 1890
Philemon Tillion, the English-born architect of the Oak Street pair, emigrates to the United States
Philemon Tillion, who later designed 133-135 Oak Street, was born in England in 1855, trained there and emigrated to the United States in 1890. In Greenpoint he is best known for the Industrial Home for the Blind and the Greenpoint Masonic Temple. His sons Philip and Clement later joined the firm, which added to the Home for the Blind, the Masonic Temple and the Eberhard Faber Pencil Factory.
Source: brownstoner.com
- 1901
Robert H. Balmore has architect Philemon Tillion design a pair of two-family houses on Oak Street
In 1901 the Brooklyn architect Philemon Tillion drew the plans for 133 and 135 Oak Street, two-family houses commissioned by Robert H. Balmore, a resident of the neighboring 131 Oak Street. Built of brick, the two houses mirror one another, each set behind a shallow garden, with paired central entrances reached by low stoops. The Landmarks Preservation Commission's 1982 report notes that only four buildings on the street fall inside the Greenpoint Historic District, and this pair is two of them.
“Designed in 1901 by Brooklyn architect Philemon Tillion, they were built for Robert H. Balmore who lived at 131 Oak Street.”
- 1901
The Oak Street pair gives each family a house 25 feet wide and 50 feet deep, with English-looking brick fronts
Each of the two houses at 133-135 Oak Street is 25 feet wide and 50 feet deep, a size Brownstoner's Suzanne Spellen judged comfortable for each apartment. They are built of plain working-class brick, with pressed metal cornices, iron railings, stone lintels above the doors and arched windows. She thought the result looked very British, which fits the English training of their architect.
Source: brownstoner.com
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