230 Hamilton Avenue

St. George | built 1923

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

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1923
Frank A. Strauss owns the modest frame house and mortgages it
Nobody knows who designed, built or first owned this one-and-a-half-story frame house, put up around 1917 to 1923 on a lot carved from the John C. Green estate. By 1923 Frank A. Strauss owned it and took out a mortgage on it that year. A two-story rear addition with a flat roof followed under an alteration filed in 1924.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1925
Chemical engineer Frank A. Strauss lives here while chief chemist at the Standard Varnish Works
Strauss and his family were recorded as the occupants in 1925. A chemical engineer, he served from 1920 to 1935 as chief chemist of the Standard Varnish Works, a Port Richmond plant. He later set up his own Manhattan firm, Barsky & Strauss, Inc., a consulting practice for chemists and engineers, where he served as vice-president.
“Strauss, a chemical engineer, was the chief chemist at the Standard Varnish Works in Port Richmond from 1920 to 1935.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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