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unusual facts about New York City Landmark



Brooklyn Union Gas Company Headquarters

Designed by Brooklyn architect Frank Freeman and completed in 1914, it was designated a New York City landmark in 2011.

Low Memorial Library

Low Library was officially named a New York City landmark in 1967, then a National Historic Landmark twenty years later.

Morris Schinasi

His family mansion built in 1907 at West 107th Street & 351 Riverside in Manhattan, New York City and called the Schinasi House today, is designated a New York City Landmark and listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

Woodruff Leeming

He designed the 1893 rectory for the South Congregational Church, Chapel, Ladies Parlor, and Rectory, Brooklyn, New York, which is now a New York City Landmark.


see also

Audubon Park Historic District

Audubon Park Historic District, New York City in Manhattan, New York City, a designated New York City Landmark

Benjamin N. Duke House

Benjamin's brother James Buchanan Duke (1856–1925) also built a townhouse on Fifth Avenue, the James B. Duke House, which was designated a New York City Landmark in 1970, and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.

William Ulmer Brewery

William Ulmer was the nephew of both John F. Betz and Henry Clausen Sr., they in turn were brewers and apprentices of D.G. Yuengling Sr. It is a New York City Landmark.

Yuko Nii

In 1996, Nii founded the not for profit Williamsburg Art & Historical Center (WAH Center) in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York, which is housed in the Kings County Savings Bank Building in the National Register of Historic Places - a New York City Landmark.