author
Frederick Brückbauer
b. 1864
A little-known New York writer and local historian, this author is remembered for preserving the story of an old downtown church and the neighborhood around it. His work has the feel of a guided walk through the city’s past, full of place, memory, and community life.
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The Kirk on Rutgers Farm
by Frederick Brückbauer
About the author
Very little biographical information about this author was readily available in the sources I found. He is identified in library and public-domain records as Frederick Brückbauer (also spelled Bruckbauer), born in 1864.
He is known for The Kirk on Rutgers Farm, published in 1919 by Fleming H. Revell. The book is a historical account of the Market Street Dutch Reformed Church, later known as the Church of the Sea and Land, in New York City.
Because reliable biographical details were scarce, it is safest to remember him as a writer with a strong interest in New York church and neighborhood history, whose surviving reputation rests mainly on that work.