Date: 1922Material: Black and white photographDimension:
4.5 x 3.5 inches; 400 dpi
Creator: Eugene L. ArmbrusterIdentifier: aql:29645 ela-004679 ela-004679.tif
Description: Henry W. Meyer House - 64th Street just south of Catalpa Avenue. Built by Henry W. Meyer in the early 1890's, after his death the city leased it from The Ivanhoe Co. (Henry Meyer Estate) in the early 1900's for the Police Station, it housed the 85th Precinct, then due to renumbering the 285th, the 116th, the 54th, and finally the 104th Precinct until a new police station was built in the late 1920's on adjacent corner. The building was demolished for a new courthouse in the late 1920's (what is now the Ridgewood YMCA). Henry W. Meyer, a German immigrant made his money in tobacco (Ivanhoe Tobacco Co., & Bushwick Tobacco Works), bought up much of the old Dutch farmland (Edsall and Debevoise) in the surrounding area; In the 1900's and 1920's Henry W. Meyer's family and estate became developers, building many of the brick row homes in Ridgewood and Glendale.
Summary/Description : Henry W. Meyer House - 64th Street just south of Catalpa Avenue. Built by Henry W. Meyer in the early 1890's, after his death the city leased it from The Ivanhoe Co. (Henry Meyer Estate) in the early 1900's for the Police Station, it housed the 85th Precinct, then due to renumbering the 285th, the 116th, the 54th, and finally the 104th Precinct until a new police station was built in the late 1920's on adjacent corner. The building was demolished for a new courthouse in the late 1920's (what is now the Ridgewood YMCA). Henry W. Meyer, a German immigrant made his money in tobacco (Ivanhoe Tobacco Co., & Bushwick Tobacco Works), bought up much of the old Dutch farmland (Edsall and Debevoise) in the surrounding area; In the 1900's and 1920's Henry W. Meyer's family and estate became developers, building many of the brick row homes in Ridgewood and Glendale.
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