About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_2467
  • TitleSchenck-Crooke house
  • SummarySchenck-Crooke house on Mill Island (Mill Basin) near Bergen Beach, a small, wood-frame, partially vine-covered house with three dormer windows and colonnade entrance and porch; small child sitting in right foreground and two large trees in front yard.
  • Date[189-?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 4 x 5 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: "Built by Capt. John Schenck about 1650; probably oldest house in N. Y. City." Title from inscription on verso.
  • SubjectHistoric buildings ; Houses [lctgm] ; Wooden-frame houses
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Mill Basin (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: Mill Basin: Homes: Schenck homestead