SummaryPartial facade of a white, two-story, wood-frame house with three dormer windows, window shutters, and colonnade entrance with portion of lawn and several small trees in foreground. Caption: "Reported gutted--Replica of Lefferts house, said by General Sullivan in his Aug 23 comunique to General Washington to have been burned during British-Hessian occupation of Flatbush. Now near Empire Boulevard entrance to Prospect Park, house contains museum maintained by Ft. Greene Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution."
NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: date inscribed: 1946; date stamped: Aug. 23, 1951. On verso: "The Lefferts House as [it] looks today; once stood at 563 Flatbush ave. In 1918 was moved to Prospect Park & restored to its original beauty." On verso: "Back cover of Fla[tbush] Historical Bo[oklet]". Title from caption on verso.
Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
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