About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_1015
  • TitleOld Church homestead
  • SummaryTwo-story wooden house, with shuttered windows, three chimneys, and six ionic columns supporting balustrade over second floor, at Fort Hamilton Avenue and 101st Street; slatted fence, bare tree, sidewalk, and roadway in foreground; neighboring and distant buildings in background.
  • Date1930
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print: black & white, gelatin silver; 6 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date inscribed: Aug. 1/30. Title from inscription on verso. Inscription on verso: "Church, James C." Retouched.
  • SubjectWooden-frame houses ; Historic buildings ; Mansions ; Columns, Ionic
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Fort Hamilton (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: Fort Hamilton: Homes: Church Mansion