Eugene L. Armbruster

Eugene L. Armbruster (1865–1943) was a New York City photographer, illustrator, writer, and historian born in Baden-Baden, Germany and based in Bushwick, Brooklyn, where he died. His work includes many buildings, roads, and neighborhoods in area towns such as

Amagansett Astoria Bridgehampton Brooklyn Brooklyn Heights Bushwick Coney Island Corona East New York East Hampton Elmhurst Flatbush Flatlands Flushing Forest Hills Gravesend Hempstead Jackson Heights Jamaica Jericho Long Island City Manhattan Maspeth Middle Village Montauk Oyster Bay Queens Village Rego Park Ridgewood Rikers Island South Ozone Park Southampton Sullivan County Williamsburg

Life Armbruster was born in Baden-Baden, Germany in 1865 and immigrated to the United States in 1882. He was naturalized as a United States citizen in 1891. He owned a house on Eldert Street in Bushwick, where he lived with his wife Julia, and their two children Julia and Eugene Jr. He was a proprietor of the H. Henkel Cigar Box Manufacturing Company until his retirement in 1920. While Armbruster did photography and historical writing throughout his life, he conducted much of this work after he retired. Armbruster often worked as his own publisher and published many limited edition pamphlets. In the 1930s Armbruster served on a Work Progress Administration project collecting information for a local history project. Armbruster's published pamphlets were mostly limited edition with about 300-500 prints made. Armbruster gathered his research by exploring sites, talking to locals, as well as, by reading newspapers and history books. For his research and work on Genealogy he also referenced census records.