# Parfitt Brothers

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{{Short description|American architecture firm}}
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thumb|313 Washington Avenue
The '''Parfitt Brothers''' were architects in [Brooklyn](/source/Brooklyn), [New York CIty](/source/New_York_CIty). The firm included three brothers, Henry, Walter and Albert, who were born in  [Frome, England](/source/Frome%2C_England). They were "one of Brooklyn’s best and busiest architectural firms of the late 19th and early 20th" centuries.<ref name=brownstone>{{cite web
   |url=https://www.brownstoner.com/brooklyn-life/walkabout-parfi/amp
   |title=Parfitt Brothers in Brooklyn
   |website=[brownstoner.com](/source/Brownstoner_Magazine)}}</ref> They designed [row house](/source/row_house)s, mansions, apartment buildings, public offices, commercial buildings and churches. Their work includes two buildings listed on the [National Register of Historic Places](/source/National_Register_of_Historic_Places): [Moody Mansion](/source/Moody_Mansion_(Pittston%2C_Maine)) in [Pittston, Maine](/source/Pittston%2C_Maine) and the [Tree Studio Building and Annexes](/source/Tree_Studio_Building_and_Annexes) in [Chicago](/source/Chicago).<ref name=brownstone/>

thumb|Sketch for Temple Israel in Brooklyn
thumb|6 Pierrepont Street
Albert E. Parfitt was born in 1863 and died at his home in Brooklyn on October 18, 1926.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nyc-architecture.com/ARCH/ARCH-ParfittBrothers.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040907080839/http://www.nyc-architecture.com/ARCH/ARCH-ParfittBrothers.htm|url-status=usurped|archive-date=September 7, 2004|title=New York Architecture Images- Parfitt Brothers|website=www.nyc-architecture.com}}</ref>

==Work==
*[Tree Studio Building and Annexes](/source/Tree_Studio_Building_and_Annexes) NRHP listed
thumb|St. Augustine's Roman Catholic Church at 122 Sixth Avenue in Park Slope
*[Moody Mansion (Pittston, Maine)](/source/Moody_Mansion_(Pittston%2C_Maine)) NRHP listed
*The Montague, Grosvenor, and Berkeley apartment building.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/17/realestate/streetscapes-montague-street-brooklyn-heights-red-brick-apartment-houses-low.html|title=Streetscapes/Montague Street, Brooklyn Heights; Red-Brick Apartment Houses on a Low-Rise Block|first=Christopher|last=Gray|newspaper=The New York Times|date=2002-11-17}}</ref>
thumb|Franklin Building
*Tower of St. Augustine in Brooklyn<ref>{{cite web|url=https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e1-0f22-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99|title=Tower of St. Augustine's, Brooklyn, N.Y. Parfitt Brothers, architects.|website=NYPL Digital Collections}}</ref>
*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
thumb|Liebmann Brothers Building
*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<ref name=brownstone/>
*Truslow House (1887–1888) at 96 Brooklyn Avenue at Brooklyn Avenue and Dean Street, a [New York City Landmark](/source/New_York_City_Landmark)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.brooklyneagle.com/articles/2017/9/20/see-marvelous-crown-heights-mansion-parfitt-brothers-designed|title=See the marvelous Crown Heights mansion the Parfitt Brothers designed - Brooklyn Daily Eagle|website=www.brooklyneagle.com}}</ref>
thumb|166 5th Avenue
*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<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.brownstoner.com/architecture/building-of-the-248/ | title=Brooklyn Heights Brooklyn &#124; 6 Pierrepont St History| date=2011-03-02}}</ref>

==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:St. Philip's Church in Dyker Heights.jpg
File:64 & 66 8th Avenue Park Slope.jpg
File:St. Augustine's Roman Catholic Church 116 Sixth Avenue Park Slope.jpg
File:410 Clinton Avenue Cornelius N. Hoagland House front view.jpg
File:Ladder Co 122 and Engine Co 220 South Slope.jpg
File:PittstonME MoodyMansion.jpg
</gallery>

==References==
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Category:Defunct architecture firms based in New York City
Category:Companies based in Brooklyn

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