About This Item


  • TitleNeck Road and Ocean Avenue house
  • Call NumberOGDE_0033
  • Cite AsGeorge S. Ogden photograph collection, Brooklyn Museum/Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryView of one-story, wood-frame, apparently unoccupied house located at the intersection of Ocean Avenue and Neck Road, later renamed Gravesend Neck Road. Image includes four boys standing on front porch at right, wood fence along front, and fire hydrant in left foreground.
  • Date1914
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteDate from Ogden Collection finding aid: July 18, 1914. Photographer's name from Ogden Collection finding aid. Title from Ogden Collection finding aid. Collection owned jointly by Brooklyn Public Library and Brooklyn Museum; original glass plate negatives held by Brooklyn Museum.
  • CreatorOgden, George S.
  • SubjectDwellings -- New York (State) -- New York ; Hydrants -- New York (State) -- New York ; Historic buildings -- New York (State) -- New York ; Houses -- New York (State) -- New York [lctgm] ; Wooden-frame houses -- New York (State) -- New York
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Gravesend (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.