Yesterday the Landmarks Preservation Commission voted unanimously to make Fillmore Place, a one-block stretch of 29 mostly brick mid-19th century row houses between Roebling Street and Driggs Avenue just north of Grand Street in Williamsburg, an Historic District yesterday. Constructed for working class-tenants, the architecture of the buildings in this district has more in common with fashionable middle- and upper-class single-family row houses than the tenements that were typically built to house them, said Chairman Robert Tierney. The district is an evocative reminder of this period in Brooklyn’s history. Henry Miller spent part of his childhood at 662 Driggs Avenue, at right.
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