Kreischerville Workers' Houses, 75-77 Kreischer Street

75 Kreischer Street | also 77 Kreischer Street | Charleston | built 1890

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1. 1890

   Peter Androvette builds the 75-77 double house and rents it to laborers

   Around 1890 Peter Androvette, a member of a prominent local family, developed this double house and three identical neighbors close to the Kreischer brick works, now gone. He leased the halves to laborers who worked at the brickworks and other industries nearby. The modest, unornamented frame house with side-porch entrances originally looked across Kreischer Street at a row of similar homes.

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

2. 1900

   Day laborers in 1900, then Hungarian tenants in 1910, rent the two halves

   The 1900 census lists day laborer James McGarry in No. 75 and Anton Drearer, a German day laborer, with his wife, Rosa, in No. 77. Ten years later both halves held Hungarian tenants: K. Eager, who worked odd jobs, at No. 75, and Frank Karzo, a laborer at the Tottenville copper works, at No. 77.

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

3. 1920

   A Russian terra-cotta worker's family and boarders fill No. 75 in 1920

   By 1920 No. 75 housed a Russian immigrant employed at the terra-cotta works, together with his wife, his children and two boarders from Russia; one boarder was a furnace helper and the other a laborer at the Tottenville Copper Co. works. Next door, the census recorded only one official resident of No. 77 that year: Anna Meisch, an immigrant from Germany.

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

4. 1949

   Janos Szucs sells the house to the Belanskys, his daughter Mary and her husband Moses

   Janos (John) Szucs of Green Ridge had bought the land under all four Kreischer Street double houses in 1923, after Peter Androvette died. In 1949 he sold Nos. 75-77, where the couple were already living, to his daughter Mary and her husband, Moses Belansky. Szucs died in 1967, and his remaining houses passed to his heirs.

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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