98 Noble Street
Greenpoint | built 1870
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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.
- 1870
Frederick W. Wolcott probably builds a frame house at 98 Noble Street as an investment
The 1982 Greenpoint Historic District report says No. 98 Noble Street was most likely put up around 1870 by Frederick W. Wolcott as an investment. It is a two-and-a-half-story frame house with a gabled front, original two-over-two window sash set in molded frames with hoods, and double wooden doors under a gabled hood.
“No. 98 is a handsome frame house probably built about 1870 by Frederick W. Wolcott for investment purposes.”
- 1885
Patterned novelty shingles are probably added to the frame house at 98 Noble Street
Brownstoner's Building of the Day column says the shingles on 98 Noble Street were probably put on later, dating from the mid-1880s, and that architectural historians call them novelty shingles. Scalloped rows alternate with straight-cut rows, and sawtooth shingles form diamonds between the windows. The column compares the arrangement, in purpose though not in look, to the terra-cotta or carved stone trim of Queen Anne and Romanesque Revival row houses: beauty for its own sake.
Source: brownstoner.com
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