About This Item

  • TitleSchenck homestead
  • Call NumberNEIG_0459
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryFacade of Isaac Schenck homestead, a small, three-story stucco and shingle house with attached shed (?) on Jamaica Avenue near Cleveland Street, with wood fence (and gate) along front, several large trees, and cobblestone street with trolley tracks in foreground.
  • Date[1906?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: "Johannes Schenck House in Highland Park (Jamaica Ave.); also known as Furman-Cornell-Schenck House." Title from typed caption on verso.
  • SubjectFences ; Historic buildings ; Dwellings [lctgm]
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Cypress Hills (New York, N.Y.)
  • 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.