About This Item

  • Call NumberOGDE_0006
  • TitleSchenck House, built 1656
  • SummaryOne and a half story, ivy-covered, wooden-frame with dormer windows in state of disrepair, known as the Schenck Crooke House, on barren, sandy lot at Crooke Road and East 63rd Street; telephone poles at left.
  • Date1914
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from inscription on verso. On verso: date inscribed: May 1914. Inscribed on verso: "Ogden." Collection owned jointly by Brooklyn Public Library and Brooklyn Museum; original glass plate negatives held by Brooklyn Museum.
  • CreatorOgden, George S.
  • SubjectWooden-frame houses -- New York (State) -- New York ; Historic buildings -- New York (State) -- New York
  • PlaceCanarsie (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsGeorge S. Ogden photograph collection, Brooklyn Museum/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.
  • FolderOgden: Folder 1