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Visitation Place

By The Red Hook WaterStories team

Visitation Place was originally Tremont Street. It was renamed on May 4, 1909, after the the Roman Catholic Church of the Visitation, that was built on the street in 1855.

Sources:

Dikeman, J. The Brooklyn Compendium, Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.). Common Council. 1870. https://books.google.com/books?id=jvpHAQAAMAAJ (accessed 2016)

Sherman, Herman. Red Hook Place-Names. Graduate Thesis, Brooklyn College, 1965.

Published on Jun 7, 2016. Last updated on May 19, 2018.