Built 127 years ago - Digital Collections

Call NumberNEIG_0915
TitleBuilt 127 years ago
SummaryThree-story clapboard house with sloping roof and shuttered windows on raised platform behind chain-link fence in Flatlands; four children (two with baby carriages) in right foreground; portion of apartment house in left background; portion of brick building in right background. Caption: "Built 127 years ago -- Here is the old Ditmas Homestead at 150 Amersfort Place, erected in 1827 by George Van Nuyse, Brooklyn farmer. It has been selected by the Municipal Art Society as a significant Brooklyn landmark, worthy of preservation."
Date1954
Formatstill image
Physical Description1 photographic print: black & white, gelatin silver; 8 x 10 in.
Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
NoteOn verso: date stamped: Jun[e] 2, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from caption on verso. Grease pencil cropping marks.
CreatorBrooklyn eagle
Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
SubjectDwellings [lctgm] ; Wooden-frame houses ; Historic buildings
CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Flatlands (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: Flatlands: Homes: Ditmas