About This Item


  • Call NumberNEIG_0433
  • TitleWilhelms Homestead
  • SummaryFacade of large three-story house with portico entrance with balcony; iron fence along front and section of street in foreground. Caption: "Wilhelms Homestead, no. 1124 Eastern parkway. First house built on the thoroughfare east of Nostrand Avenue, almost thirty-five years ago and occupied since by owners, was sold last week for the Wilhelms Estate ... to a client who will renovate the house and occupy it."
  • Date1912
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 7 x 5 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Dec. 8, 1912. Pencil cropping marks. Small section missing from lower left corner. Title from caption on verso.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Daily Eagle]
  • SubjectDwellings [lctgm] ; Mansions
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Crown Heights (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • RightsThis work is in the Public Domain. The Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library can provide a copy of this work free of charge.
  • FolderFolder: Crown Heights: Homes: Wilhelms Homestead