About This Item

  • TitleMartense homestead
  • Call NumberNEIG_0774
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryFacade of Martense homestead, a small, wood-frame (shingle) house with shuttered windows at Church Avenue and Chester Avenue with two large trees on snow-covered front yard and trees on both sides.
  • Date1912, 1921
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 5 x 7 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Jan. 27, 1912; date inscribed: Sept. 10/21. On verso: "Built about 1800. Title from inscription on verso.
  • SubjectHistoric buildings ; Houses [lctgm] ; Wooden-frame houses
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Flatbush (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.