Gravesend: District School, southeast corner of Gravesend Avenue and Neck Road, 1922. Site later occupied by town hall. [i.e. 14 Neck Road, former Dutch Reformed Church lecture room; later owned by and moved by Methodist Church]

New York photographer and local historian born in Baden-Baden, Germany; emigrated to the United States 1882 and lived in Brooklyn, New York. Armbruster photographed historic houses, churches, streetscapes, and buildings throughout New York City, and some of the images he created served to illustrate pamphlets he wrote on the local history of the area.