Ulmer Brewery on Path to Landmarking
Ulmer Brewery office building (1886, Theobald Engelhardt)
Photo: markamav at Flickr
Not sure how we missed this one, but at last Tuesday's LPC hearing the Ulmer Brewery complex in Bushwick was calendared for designation. This is the first step in the designation process - next up, a public hearing at LPC.
The proposed landmark includes the main brewhouse (photo below; constructed in 1872) and an addition (ca. 1880); the office (above), engine house and machine house (1886, Theobald Engelhardt, architect); and the stable and storage building (c. 1893, Frederick Wunder, architect). Despite the difference in date of construction and architects, the complex is unified by the use of the round arch style. This style was popular for German-owned factories in Williamsburg and Bushwick in the late 19th century (as at Domino).
William Ulmer founded the brewery in 1871 as the Vigelius & Ulmer Continental Lagerbier brewery. By 1878, Ulmer was the sole proprietor, and over the next two decades, he embarked on a series of expansions. Prior to Prohibition, there were two dozen breweries in Brooklyn, 11 of them in this small 14-block area of Bushwick that became known as Brewers Row. While portions of other breweries survive today, Ulmer may be unique in that most of the historic complex is still standing.
The Ulmer Brewery closed in 1920, following the enactment of Prohibition.
Ulmer Brewery (1872, architect unknown)
Photo: Forgotten NY
Thanks to QueensCrap (via Bushwick BK) for catching this.
Comments (3)
My wife and I went for dinner at Claudio's Restaurant in Greeport, LI. A hisotoric photo of the restaurant's exterior taken in 1904 shows a very large Ulmer Beer sign that stretches the entire length of the roof. I was excited to see that although Ulmer beer is long gone the brewery still stands in Brooklyn. I was thrilled to see that the offices and brewery are in the process of being considered for landmark status. The 1904 Claudio's photo can be seen on the Claudio's website. (www.claudios.com)
Posted by NickF | June 27, 2009 1:03 PM
Posted on June 27, 2009 13:03
Directly across the street from the brewery was P.S. 24
grammar school (built in 1873) which I attended in the fifties. I think the building was even vacant back then.
Posted by Peter Bono | December 17, 2009 6:52 PM
Posted on December 17, 2009 18:52
When you are in not good state and have no money to get out from that, you will have to take the business loans. Because that would aid you emphatically. I take student loan every year and feel myself great just because of it.
Posted by MacdonaldGayle | May 31, 2011 1:12 AM
Posted on May 31, 2011 01:12