About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_2135
  • TitleLefferts homestead
  • SummaryFacade of a white, two-story, wood-frame house with three dormer windows, window shutters on first floor, and colonnaded entrance, with trees on both sides, trellis in center foreground, and signs on left: "Lefferts Homestead; Open to Visitors," etc. Caption: "Lefferts homestead--the old Colonial farmhouse in Prospect Park, selected by the Municipal Art Society as a structure which should be preserved because of regional importance, was erected upon the timbers and foundation of the original homestead, burned during the prelude to the Battle of Long Island."
  • 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: Apr. 5, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; "Brooklyn Eagle photo." Title from inscription and caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectHistoric buildings ; Houses [lctgm] ; Trellises ; Wooden-frame houses
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • 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.
  • FolderFolder: Flatbush: Homes: Lefferts House