85 Calyer Street
Greenpoint | built 2020
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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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- 1859
Thomas Fitch Rowland founds the Continental Iron Works and lives at 85 Calyer Street
Thomas Fitch Rowland, born in Connecticut in 1831, became a railroad engineer and steam-engine expert before being invited to Greenpoint to build ships. By 1859 he had founded the Continental Iron Works on Quay Street. His home was a frame house at 85 Calyer Street, which stood on this lot before the present building.
Source: greenpointers.com
- 1861
John Ericsson visits Rowland's Calyer Street house daily while the Monitor is built
Ericsson and Rowland signed their agreement on October 25, 1861, and work on the ironclad Monitor started the same day. Ericsson visited the Calyer Street house daily during the 101 days the ship took to build. The Monitor was launched into the East River on January 30, 1862, and fought the Confederate ironclad Virginia to a standstill on March 9.
Source: greenpointers.com
- 2017
The Rowland house wins approval for demolition and is to be replaced by two townhouses
A new owner, Daniel Kaykov, received approval to demolish the frame house, which had no landmark status and whose elegant facade had been covered with vinyl. Two townhouses were to replace it. The Greenpointers writer called it perhaps the only surviving building known to have been visited by John Ericsson, since the Continental Iron Works on Quay Street was long gone.
Source: greenpointers.com
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