About This Item


  • TitleNew Supreme Courthouse
  • Call NumberGOVT_0194
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (GOVT 0195), some of which may also be described in this new record; Architectural rendering of New York State Supreme Court Building (completed in 1957) at 360 Adams Street; Borough Hall and Municipal Building in right background; images identical except for grease pencil cropping marks on 0194. Caption on verso of 0194: "New Supreme Courthouse: Architect's conception of Brooklyn's new Supreme Court Building to be erected in the Brooklyn Civic Center. Facing on Washington St., near Johnson St., the court will command a view of the entire Cadman Plaza, the Brooklyn Bridge and approahces to Borough Hall, shown at the right."
  • Date1949
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description2 photographic prints : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genrearchitectural drawings (visual works)gelatin silver printsphotographic printsrenderings (drawings)
  • NoteTitle from caption on label of 0194. On verso of 0194: dates stamped: Jul. 14, 1949, May 11, 1951, and Jun. 14, 1953; photographer's stamp: Drix Duryea; architect's stamp: Shreve, Lamb & Harmon Associates; and Brooklyn Eagle stamp. On verso of 0195: date stamped: Jul. 14, 1949; photographer's stamp: Drix Duryea; architect's stamp: Shreve, Lamb & Harmon Associates.
  • CreatorDuryea, Drix ; Shreve, Lamb & Harmon
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectShreve, Lamb & Harmon ; Courthouses -- New York (State) -- New York ; Municipal buildings -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Downtown Brooklyn (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.