56 Hawthorne Street (pictured below) was built in 1909 by architect George Roosen for owner Joseph Moore, of 185 Fenimore
George Roosen also built landmarked houses and flats in Crown Heights North, Park Slope, and Sunset Park.
The limestone townhouse is reminiscent of similar houses on the south side of Fenimore street and on Hawthorne closer to Flatbush, built a few years earlier by developer Charles Reynolds . Why was only a single townhouse constructed here rather than a row? Tell us if you have any theories!
By 1913, the house was rented out to Mr. Lockwood Barr, the young managing editor of the Wall Street Journal. He testified in court on behalf of his maid, Agnes Anderson, an immigrant who spoke little English and whose purse was snatched in Prospect Park by the son of none other than a local policeman. (Source: Brooklyn Daily Eagle)
If you're a neighbor and can offer any stories about more recent inhabitants of the house, email us and we'll send it out in the next edition.
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