About This Item


  • Call NumberCHUR_0662
  • TitleOur Lady of Refuge Church
  • SummaryFramework of Our Lady of Refuge Church, Ocean Avenue and Foster Avenue, under construction, with parked automobile and truck holding building materials in right foreground, pedestrian in left foreground and trees on both sides. Sign on shed-like building in lower left: "The new church of Our Lady of Refuge, Henry V. Murphy, architect, 208 Livingston St., Brooklyn; Walter Kidde Constructors Incorporated, Engineers and builders, 140 Cedar St., New York City."
  • Date1933
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: date inscribed: Sept. 27/33. Title from inscription on verso.
  • CreatorMurphy, Henry V.
  • SubjectOur Lady of Refuge Church ; Building [lctgm] ; Catholic church buildings [lctgm]
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
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  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Flatbush (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.