About This Item


  • Call NumberNEIG_2044
  • Title[Brownstone at Bedford Avenue and Ross Street]
  • SummaryFour-story corner brownstone, with two-sided bay window and pediment over entrance; lamppost and street sign on sidewalk in front of building; adjacent buildings at left and right. Caption: "Another old Eastern District landmark is to be razed to make room for a big improvement to be erected on its site. The building is the fine old dwelling at the southwest corner of Bedford Avenue and Ross street, occupied for the past twelve years by Dr. A. W. Lawrence. . . . The building was occupied for some time by the Nassau Wheelmen as a clubhouse."
  • Date1913
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print: black & white, gelatin silver; 7 x 5 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Apr. 27, 1913; second date inscribed: Aug. 25/30. Title supplied by cataloger. Image blurry at top; bottom left corner slightly torn. Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
  • SubjectBrownstone buildings ; Apartment houses ; Lampposts
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Williamsburg (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, 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.
  • FolderFolder: Williamsburg: Bedford Avenue