Greenpoint Reformed Church

Category: Monuments

"Two white porcelain plaques depict a seated figure of Robert Fulton, with designs for paddle-wheel steamboats, submarines and torpedoes and the gentleman standing is the politician Robert Livingston, Fulton’s business partner. The plaques were probably made in the late 1870s at the Union Porcelain Works, a factory in Greenpoint that was in operation from the 1860s to the 1920s." NY Times