About This Item

  • Call NumberCHUR_0568
  • TitleSociety of Friends built this
  • SummaryFacade of church with iron fence along front and side, church sign, traffic light and pedestrian in right foreground, subway entrance in left foreground, three parked automobiles, residential buildings on both sides and intersecting streets. Caption: "Society of Friends built this--This Friends Meeting House at Lafayette and Washington Aves., one of the landmarks of Brooklyn's religion and culture, must be preserved as a borough landmark, the Municipal Art Society says."
  • Date1954
  • 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 stamped: May 25, 1954. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectQuaker church buildings ; Quakers ; Society of Friends
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • Finding AidView the finding aid
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Clinton Hill Historic District (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.