Towles‐Brooks House

708 59th Avenue-The Towles-Brooks House, a cross-gabled building with late-Victorian decorative detail, was a popular style in the early twentieth century. Samuel Towles, a messenger at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, built the house in 1910. The property passed to his nephew, Lawrence Brooks, who served on the Town Council of Fairmount Heights and as its mayor from 1967 to 1972.