John Willis Griffiths House
Address:
130 Ainslie St
Brooklyn
Category: Historic Houses
Final residence for New York naval architect John Willis Griffiths, b. 6 Oct 1809 (Manhattan, New York), d. 30 March 1882 (Brooklyn, New York). Griffiths built the Rainbow (1845), the first true clipper ship, which radically changed the China and California trade.
His final resting place is the Linden Hill Methodist Cemetery, 332 Woodward Ave, Ridgewood, Queens NY 11385, Section B lot 113
SOURCE: Dr. Larrie D. Ferreiro, author Ships and Science: The Birth of Naval Architecture in the Scientific Revolution, 1600-1800 Cambridge: MIT Press, 2007
