About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_1004
  • TitleSchenck homestead
  • SummaryFacade of white, two-story, wood-frame house with three dormer windows, shutters on first floor, and colonnade entrance with bushes in front and trees on both sides. Caption: "The Schenck homestead, built about 176. ... on original site, which became Canarsie Park. ... by historically-minded civic groups and, in 1930 ... visitors still it a subject of daily interest. Note: house originally located in Flatlands, and later moved to the Brooklyn Museum.
  • Date[1930?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger.
  • SubjectHistoric buildings ; Houses [lctgm] ; Wooden-frame houses
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Flatlands (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: Flatlands: Homes: Schenck house (Canarsie Park)