About This Item
- TitleLady Deborah Moody house
- Call NumberNEIG_1392
- Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
- SummaryTwo-story, wood-frame house with three dormer windows and colonnade entrance at 27 Neck Road, and flag pole in far left foreground. Caption: "The Lady Deborah Moody house in Gravesend, oldest inhabited house in America, showing the cherry tree at the gate which, tradition has it, shaded George Washington. The front portion of the house was built in 1643."
- Date1938
- Formatstill image
- Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
- Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
- NoteOn verso: date inscribed: May 1/38; on caption: "Eagle staff photo." Title from caption on verso.
- CreatorBrooklyn daily eagle
- Publisher[Brooklyn Daily Eagle]
- SubjectHistoric buildings ; Houses [lctgm] ; Wooden-frame houses
- CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
- PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Gravesend (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.