About This Item

  • Call NumberSCHL_0632
  • TitleElks Brooklyn lodge
  • SummaryFacade of Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks clubhouse, a twelve-story limestone building built by McKim, Mead & White in 1926 at 110 Livingston Street; six parked automobiles and moving trolley car in foreground. Note: The building became the headquarters for the New York City Board of Education on May 14, 1940.
  • Date1933
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 9 x 7 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteCropped and cutout; retouched. On verso: date inscribed: April 6/33; "Livingston St. & Boerum Pl." Retouched. Title from inscription on verso.
  • SubjectClubhouses -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Downtown Brooklyn (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: Schools: Public: Board of Education: Buildings