About This Item


  • Call NumberUNDE_0045
  • TitleCrescent Athletic Club
  • SummaryAerial close-up of Crescent Athletic Club, a five-floor limestone building at 129 Pierrepont Street with residential buildings on both sides and two parked automobiles. Designed by Frank Freeman in 1906, it was a men's club until 1940; it was an office building until 1966 when it was bought and remodeled by St. Ann's Episcopal Church School.
  • Date1910
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 11 x 9 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NotePhotographer's name inscribed on recto. Title from inscription on recto. Collection owned jointly by Brooklyn Public Library and Brooklyn Museum; original glass plate negatives held by Brooklyn Museum.
  • CreatorUnderhill, Irving, -1960
  • SubjectAthletic clubs -- New York (State) -- New York
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn Heights (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsIrving I. Underhill 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.
  • FolderIrving I. Underhill photograph collection