Thursday, April 11, 2013

1228 Pacific St.

I was looking at the 1915 NY state census record for Axel and Olena Nylen's family.  (Axel is Rich's great-grandfather.)


I saw that the address was clearly written on the side (1228--and then higher up on the page it lists the street as Pacific Street).  This is in Brooklyn (Kings County), New York, so I thought I'd google the address just to see if I found anything. It looks like that exact address is still there today:


Based on property information I can find online, it looks like this is the same as it was when the Nylens lived there.  (The building was built in 1905.)  This is an apartment building of some kind; you'll see on the census that there are several other families, roomers, servants, etc. living at the same address.

Things like this are just so interesting to me! It is just kind of fun to imagine the Nylen family living in that building.

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