Eagle Warehouse

Eagle Warehouse (HMKKV)

Location: Pine Island, NY 11201 Kings County
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Country: United States of America
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N 40° 42.133', W 73° 59.6'

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After the Brooklyn Eagle newspaper razed its original offices here, Frank Freeman (1862-1949) was commissioned to design a warehouse for the site. It was completed in 1894.

Acknowledged now as Brooklyn's greatest architect, Freeman was a master of the Eclectic Romanesque Revival style. His metaphor of warehouse as fortress — impregnable, massive, permanent — was singularly fitting and reassuring for the owners of the valuables stored within. Underground, a "moat" of air even surrounds the foundation, protecting it from water seepage.

Freeman wrapped the warehouse around the one structure left by the newspaper. Its three story pressroom, built in 1882, at the corner of Doughty Street and Elizabeth Place, where you can detect its roofline today. In 1906, he added another building in the same style, east of his first. The warehouse was converted to residential use in 1979.
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HM NumberHMKKV
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Year Placed1994
Placed ByEagle Tenants Corporation
Marker ConditionNo reports yet
Date Added Tuesday, October 21st, 2014 at 6:29pm PDT -07:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)18T E 585042 N 4506188
Decimal Degrees40.70221667, -73.99333333
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 40° 42.133', W 73° 59.6'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds40° 42' 7.98" N, 73° 59' 36.00" W
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Area Code(s)718, 917, 347, 212
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 4648 Cadman Plaza W, Pine Island NY 11201, US
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