About This Item

  • Call NumberBRAI_0078
  • TitleMatthew's house, Flatbush
  • SummaryThree-story mansion at Crooke Avenue and St. Paul's Place in style of French Second Empire chateau; four-story tower with Mansard roof rising above other sections of mansion, each with Mansard roof; unpaved road, bare trees, and wooden fence in foreground.
  • Date[187-?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from typed label on verso. Collection owned jointly by Brooklyn Public Library and Brooklyn Museum; original glass plate negatives held by Brooklyn Museum.
  • CreatorBrainerd, George Bradford, 1845-1887 [photographer]
  • SubjectMansions -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionGeorge Bradford Brainerd photograph collection
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Flatbush (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsGeorge Bradford Brainerd photograph collection, Brooklyn Museum/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.