About This Item

  • TitleSummerfield Church
  • Call NumberCHUR_0513
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryFacade and tower of Summerfield Methodist Episcopal Church, Washington Avenue and Greene Avenue, undergoing demolition with iron fence and mail boxes in foreground, and street light and signs, piles of debris, parked automobile and pedestrians in front of building. (Note: Merged with Hanson Place Church to form Central Methodist Episcopal Church ca. 1928; citation: Brooklyn Daily Eagle almanac 1928.).
  • Date1931
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn recto: "Eagle" printed in black ink in lower left. On verso: date inscribed: Jan. 3/31; "Eagle photo." Retouched. Title from inscription on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn daily eagle
  • SubjectSummerfield Methodist Episcopal Church ; Automobiles ; Wrecking [lctgm] ; Methodist churches [lctgm]
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
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  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Fort Greene (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.