About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_0361
  • TitleOld 3 Mile House
  • SummaryFacade of large, three-story, wood-frame house (3 Mile House) with shuttered windows and porticoed front porch and iron fence on Fulton Street between Brooklyn Avenue and New York Avenue; sign between second and third floors: "The Old 3 Mile House;" portions of residential buildings on both sides and cobblestone street with trolley tracks in foreground. (House was built in 1853 and demolished in 1913.).
  • Date1909
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 7 x 5 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Feb. 27, 1909. Retouched. Title from inscription on verso.
  • SubjectHistoric buildings ; Wooden-frame houses
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBedford-Stuyvesant (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn (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: Bed. Stuy.: Homes