About This Item

  • 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