About This Item

  • TitleIsaac Cornel Schenck homestead
  • Call NumberNEIG_0457
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryFacade of small, three-story stucco and shingle house with shuttered windows on first floor; wood fence (and gate) along front and several large trees. Caption: "The Isaac Cornel Schenck homestead, erected about 1760, still standing, although remodeled several times, on Jamaica Ave. near Cleveland St., in the Highland park development."
  • Date1946
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 7 x 9 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date inscribed: Jan. 30, 1906. On verso: "Used in Flatbush Historical booklet & Eagle Supplement." Title from caption on verso.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Daily Eagle]
  • SubjectFences ; Historic buildings ; Dwellings [lctgm]
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Cypress Hills (New York, N.Y.)
  • 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.