About This Item

  • TitleReported gutted
  • Call NumberNEIG_0768
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryPartial facade of a white, two-story, wood-frame house with three dormer windows, window shutters, and colonnade entrance with portion of lawn and several small trees in foreground. Caption: "Reported gutted--Replica of Lefferts house, said by General Sullivan in his Aug 23 comunique to General Washington to have been burned during British-Hessian occupation of Flatbush. Now near Empire Boulevard entrance to Prospect Park, house contains museum maintained by Ft. Greene Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution."
  • Date1946, published 1951
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 6 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: date inscribed: 1946; date stamped: Aug. 23, 1951. On verso: "The Lefferts House as [it] looks today; once stood at 563 Flatbush ave. In 1918 was moved to Prospect Park & restored to its original beauty." On verso: "Back cover of Fla[tbush] Historical Bo[oklet]". Title from caption on verso.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectHistoric buildings ; Houses [lctgm] ; Wooden-frame houses
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Flatbush (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.