by Geoff Cobb
Thanks in large part to the writings of celebrated author Henry Miller and the stately Italianate houses on the street, Fillmore Place were landmarked in 2009and will forever preserve the charm that enthralled the young Miller, who first saw it as a child in the late 1890s. The atmosphere of late 19th century Williamsburg is rtetained on the street in an area that…
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Nice street, but a lot of this is just copied straight out of the Landmarks Commission designation report.
It is not copied. It is called using a source
My grandparents & their 8 children;
along with my great grandmother
lived at 19 Fillmore Place.
The brownstone was purchased about 1903 & sold in 1961.