About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_0300
  • TitleSchenk-Wyckoff house
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (NEIG 0301), some of which may also be described in this new record; Caption: "The Schenk-Wyckoff House. 1325 Flushing Avenue, Bushwick. Wing in foreground said to have been built about 1719 by one of sons of Johanness Schenk, miller. Main house dates about 1788, at which time Nicholas Wyckoff purchased property. Wyckoff lived here until 1911. They still own & ferquently visit the house. Note narrow clapoboards in front. Ends of house are havey shingles. Barn [seen in 0300] erected about 1788 is shingled all over & painted red. Buildings probably have original shingles on side walls ... " Images include long, white picket fence along side (0300) and front (0301).
  • Date1939
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description2 photographic prints : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteInscription on verso: "Photo taken probably in 1939." Stamped on verso: "R. T. B. Hand." Title from typed caption on verso of 0301.
  • CreatorHand, R. T. B.
  • SubjectFences -- New York (State) -- New York ; Historic buildings -- New York (State) -- New York ; Wooden-frame houses -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Bushwick (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: Bushwick: Flushing Avenue