About This Item

  • TitleCrooke-Schenck House
  • Call NumberNEIG_0310
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryCaption: "The Crooke-Schenck house as it looked when Nash photographed it on Oct. 1, 1905." Wood and shingle partially vine-covered two-story house with three dormer windows and front porch; large tree on each side and unpaved road in front. (House was built in 1675 and was located at 2133 East 63rd Street in Flatlands when it was moved to Brooklyn Museum in 1952.).
  • Date1905, published 1946
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date inscribed: Oct. 1, 1905; date stamped; Oct. 13, 1946. On verso: "used in Flatlands Historical Booklet & Eagle Supplement." On verso: "Crookes-Schenck House off Avenue N, Flatlands." Title from caption on verso.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectHistoric buildings ; Wooden-frame houses
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceCanarsie (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.