About This Item


  • TitleSchwarzmann property
  • Call NumberNEIG_0441
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryFacade of large, three-story wood-frame house with cupola and porticoed entrance with balcony; iron fence along front and side, residential buildings and trees on both sides, sidewalk and street in foreground, and mailbox in right foreground. Captions: "Orbach & May, Builders, have purchased the Schwarzmann property at the northwest corner of St. Marks and Nostrand Avenues, a lot 200 x 150. the buyers will improve the site with apartments and stores." "In the affluent era this was the style of architecture in the Bedford section. Carved woodwork, high ceilings and fine mantelpieces marked the interior of these houses."
  • Date1913
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteBlack ink cropping marks. On verso: date stamped: Aug. 30, 1913; date inscribed: Oct. 7/40; photographer's stamp. On verso: "Schwarzman [sic] house." Title from one of two captions on verso.
  • CreatorWalter, F. A.
  • SubjectDwellings [lctgm] ; Mansions ; Wooden-frame houses
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Crown Heights (New York, N.Y.)
  • RightsThis work is in the Public Domain. The Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library can provide a copy of this work free of charge.