135 Kent Street

Greenpoint | built 1907

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1880
Philemon Tillion, later the architect of the Kent Street flats, arrives in Brooklyn from England
Philemon Tillion came to Brooklyn from England in 1880 and set up as an architect, keeping an office on Manhattan Avenue. Most of his solo work is in Greenpoint, including the Kent Street flats of 1907, additions to the earliest Eberhard Faber pencil factory buildings, the Greenpoint Masonic Temple and the Industrial Home for the Blind. His sons later joined him as Tillion & Son, and the firm moved to Manhattan.
Source: brownstoner.com
1907
Developers Todibush and Sheehan build three neo-Classical flathouses with buff brick at 135 to 139 Kent Street
Developers August Todibush and Cornelius Sheehan had three flat buildings put up in 1907 at 135 to 139 Kent Street, each four floors with eight apartments. The Landmarks Preservation Commission describes them as neo-Classical, four bays wide, with rusticated stone ground floors and buff-brick upper stories. Entrances are framed by fluted pilasters, the top-floor windows are round-arched and joined by stone bands, and quoins mark the division between buildings. On a block of mostly single-family houses, they mark the change to apartment buildings, and the original ironwork and double wooden doors remain.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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