Background
Albert E. Parfitt was born in 1863 in England, United Kingdom.
Albert E. Parfitt was born in 1863 in England, United Kingdom.
Albert migrated to the U. S. early in life and at the age of twenty joined his elder brother, already a practicing architect in Brooklyn. In the following years many of the early business structures in the New York area were planned and built by the Parfitt Brothers, also they were architects of the Parish House and Rectory of St. Augustus Catholic Church in Brooklyn at Park Place and Sixth Avenue, and the Temple Israel erected in 1896 at the corner of Bedford Street and Lafayette Avenue