Wild file
Trump Realty sold a Windsor Place row in 1921
Three decades before Brooklyn knew the name, a Trump company was flipping houses on the block.
New York Herald, June 3, 1921, p.18
A Plot block archive
Windsor Place
Between Prospect Park West and Sherman Street · Brooklyn
A two-block stretch in Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn — even side Block 1112, odd side Block 1108, all built 1901.
62
houses, each with its own page
203
property deeds traced
78,802
newspaper mentions catalogued
518
people indexed across sources
368
archival photographs & maps
31
wild files — stories worth retelling
The block, in brief
Windsor Place was built whole, in a single year. In 1901 the builder John Magilligan put up the entire block at once and sold the houses, mostly to Irish dockworkers and tradesmen, for around $4,000 apiece. They stayed. The Dowds, the Driscolls, the Carews, the Hopkinses, the Lawrences — the same surnames recur across the deed book, the census, and the newspapers for the better part of a century, intermarrying without ever leaving the block.
The timeline
How the block got here.
- 1901Built
The entire block is built by John Magilligan
- 1921Press
Trump Realty sells a Windsor Place row
- 1944Press
The Carew–Dowd wedding joins two founding families
- 1952Press
Fireman James Lawrence decorated
- 1975Deed
The artists' wave arrives at 164
The wild files
The stories worth retelling.
Wild file
The wedding that joined two founding families
They grew up a block apart and never left.
Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Sept 12, 1944
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