About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_2029
  • TitleThe old Rapelye farmhouse
  • SummaryLithograph. Two-story stone house with sloping roof and smaller, adjacent wing at right; picket fence and dirt road in foreground; trees and bushes throughout. Caption: "The old Rapelye (Rapalje-Rapelje) farmhouse, Cripplebush Rd. near Marcy Ave. Destroyed by the opening of Floyd Street."
  • Date1944
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print: black & white, gelatin silver; 5 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printslithographsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption on verso. On verso: date inscribed: 1944.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectHistoric buildings ; Stone houses ; Farmhouses
  • 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
  • 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: Williamsburg: Homes: Rapelye House