The Parfitt Brothers were architects in

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. The firm included three brothers, Henry, Walter and Albert, who were born in Frome, England. They were "one of Brooklyn’s best and busiest architectural firms of the late 19th and early 20th" centuries. They designed

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s, mansions, apartment buildings, public offices, commercial buildings and churches. Their work includes two buildings listed on the

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: Moody Mansion in

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and the

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. Albert E. Parfitt was born in 1863 and died at his home in Brooklyn on October 18, 1926.

Work

NRHP listed *

Moody Mansion (Pittston, Maine) The Moody Mansion is a historic house on Maine State Route 194 in Pittston, Maine. Built as a summer house in 1890, it is an imposing high-quality example of Late Victorian Queen Anne architecture, now housing apartments. It was listed on the N ...

NRHP listed *The Montague, Grosvenor, and Berkeley apartment building. *Tower of St. Augustine in Brooklyn *Franklin Building (1890) at 186 Remsen *YMCA building (1885) on Fulton St and Bond (1885), *Liebmann Building on Fulton St. at Hoyt (altered since) *Vosburgh Mfg Co. building (1888) on Fulton Street (1888), part of Abraham and Strauss in 1893 Liebmann Brothers Building 446 Fulton Street

Liebmann Brothers Building 446 Fulton Street

*Knickerbocker Field Club (1893) in Prospect Park South *Firehouse for Engine Co. 252 (1892) on Central Avenue in Bushwick * Engine Co. 253 building (1895-1896) on 86th St. in Bensonhurst * Baptist Home in Bedford Stuyvesant, new wing, (1901) *13th Regiment Armory, new wing, (1906) on Sumner St. in Bedford Stuyvesant in 1906 *Sheltering Arms Nursery orphanage on Dean Street *Truslow House (1887-1888) at 96 Brooklyn Avenue at Brooklyn Avenue and Dean Street, a

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*166 5th Avenue (1910) *6 Pierrepont Street (1890) between Hicks Street and Pierrepoint Place in Brooklyn Heights for Mrs. Hallie I. James, Romanesque Revival style

Gallery

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References

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