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Elegant finishes flooded with natural light create the setting for your healthy lifestyle. 78 Herkimer Street has been completely reconstructed for quality living in the heart of Brooklyn. Cookie-cutter square boxes - that's for someone else. Twenty-nine unique residences loaded with amenities, now available for immediate occupancy.
The restoration preserves and enhances the most distinctive aspects of this storied property. Designed by the architect of the American Museum of Natural History on Manhattan's west side, the building's exterior masonry facade has been returned to its original composition.
Originally the residence of a Canadian paper merchant, by the 1890s 78 Herkimer was home to the Invincible Republican Club of Brooklyn and notably hosted a campaign speech by Teddy Roosevelt in his bid for the US presidency. He arrived at 78 Herkimer on horseback after dining at a 5th Street Brooklyn restaurant according to the New York Times.
By 1911 transportation had taken a step forward and the building was host to free-spirited pioneers who founded the Invincible Motorcycle Club of Brooklyn. Membership in this exclusive organization was limited to top-class riders including professional racers. Their 78 Herkimer club house (pictured below) featured a library, restaurant, gym, billiards hall and bowling alley, as well as continuing to provide meeting rooms for the Invincible Republican Club.
78 Herkimer Street about 1911 with the Invincible Motorcycle Club. Building showing wooden porches
In stages the decorative wooden balconies were removed, with the second floor woodwork eliminated sometime between the 1911 photo and the 1939 one below.
Taken about 1939, Wendell Wilkie was the 1940 Republican running against FDR. A maverick businessman, the candidate was supported by the 78 Herkimer Invincible Republican Club in his presidential bid.
The brick facade designed by J.C. Cady is no longer concealed and today the structure houses 29 residences.
J.C. Cady, 78 Herkimer Street's architect designed New York City's first Metropolitan Opera House, it's Museum of Natural History as well as more than a dozen buildings for Yale University in New Haven CT. 78 Herkimer, pictured above as it is today.