Eagle Warehouse
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.
Marker is on Old Fulton Street.
Courtesy hmdb.org
