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Meeker Avenue & Apollo Street, Brooklyn

3 historical photos taken here between 1857 and 1938, oldest first.

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  • Brooklyn: Meeker Avenue - Apollo Street, 1857–1922

    Brooklyn: Meeker Avenue - Apollo Street

    1857; 1922

  • Brooklyn: Meeker Avenue - Apollo Street, 1857–1922

    Brooklyn: Meeker Avenue - Apollo Street

    1857; 1922

  • Brooklyn: Meeker Avenue - Vandervoort Avenue, 1938

    Brooklyn: Meeker Avenue - Vandervoort Avenue

    1938

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Brooklyn: Meeker Avenue - Apollo Street, 1857–1922

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Brooklyn: Meeker Avenue - Apollo Street

1857; 1922

Meeker Avenue; between Apollo Street and Kingsland Avenue, showing the G. Gottfried Haupert house, on the Haupert farm. Mr. Armbruster states that the house was built about 1857 and was located on land belonging to the heirs of John Waters. According to Bromley's 1880 map of Brooklyn the waters property lay along both sides of Meeker Avenue, from Apollo Place to Kingsland Avenue. Eugene L. Armbruster, Collection 1922 views 1.2

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