About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_0764
  • TitleLefferts house
  • SummaryFacade of Lefferts house, a white, two-story, wood-frame house with three dormer windows, window shutters on first floor, and colonnade entrance, with iron picket fence along front and snow-covered front yard with one large tree and several small trees. House is now located in Prospect Park.
  • Date1938
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 6 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date inscribed: Nov. 7/38. On verso: "Famous old mansion in Prospect Park." Small triangular piece missing from center/upper right. Title from inscription on verso.
  • SubjectHistoric buildings ; Houses [lctgm] ; Wooden-frame houses
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Flatbush (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • RightsCopyright restrictions apply to the use of this work. For more information or to obtain a reproduction of this work, contact the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.
  • FolderFolder: Flatbush: Homes: Lefferts House