Bishop Boardman Home

g2bdon

Does anyone know when the Bishop Boardman Home (8th Ave & 16 St-Windsor Plc)was erected? Looking at some old maps and it seems there were many homes on those plots of lands that were razed. Just curious how that all played out. Can't seem to pin it down with any search engines. Thanks.

reader

I belive it was in the early '80s. Definitely was up and running before 1983 because the tenant in the house I bought that year had her name come up on the list and moved out 9/1983. Bishop Boardman was already occupied at that time, she was not in the first round of occupants.

salix

When I moved to Windsor Terrace in the late 70s it was being completed. The land was not occupied by many houses, but had been an old red brick "institution" of some sort with a walled garden. Since the diocese of Brooklyn-Queens owns the land, I suspect it was a convent or other religious structure htat was not needed, given to the church, torn down and the home then built. I know it was a red brick Victorian because a neighbor bragged (ca. 1979) that he paid some kids penies a brick to swipe them for his own back yard! It is possible that there were earlier frame homes on the land, but I am sure that there were no row houses like the rest of the block or across the street.

g2bdon

Salix-

I did some further research. A map of the area from 1880 shows the entire area with homes of similar size/construction and a subsequent map dated 1898 shows a completely erected old age home owned by "Little Sister of the Poor" (that's the red brick building). That was transferred (sold?) to an agency that build the Bishop Boardman apartments in 1978 and still stands today.

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