About This Item

  • Title869 President St
  • Call NumberRUTT_0034
  • Cite AsEdgar E. Rutter photograph collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryThree-story brick house in Park Slope with two bracketed oriel windows on second floor and plaque reading "Columban Fathers" to right of doorway; bare tree on sidewalk in left foreground. Caption on verso: "Mission Society House: The former home of Henry A. Mannix, 869 President St., purchased by the Columban Foreign Missionary Society from Mr. Mannix. . . . Known as the Columban Fathers House, it will be occupied by transient and convalescent priests of the society."
  • Date1950
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteRetouched; grease pencil cropping marks. On verso: date stamped: Mar. 3, 1950. Title from inscription on recto.
  • CreatorRutter, Edgar E., 1883-1956 [photographer]
  • SubjectBrick houses ; Oriels
  • CollectionEdgar E. Rutter photograph collection
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  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Park Slope (New York, N.Y.)
  • 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.