About This Item


  • TitleSprague Homestead
  • Call NumberNEIG_1208
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryFacade of two-story clapboard house with store space on ground floor: Sprague Homestead, 225 Fulton Street; cobblestone street and small pile of sand and debris (?) in foreground; elevated subway tracks overhead.
  • Date1936
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 9 x 6 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date inscribed: 1/16/36; photographer's stamp. On verso: "The Sprague Homestead, 225 Fulton Street, erected prior to 1812. It was the residence of Joseph Sprague, last village president and one of Brooklyn's first mayors." Retouched. Title from inscription on verso.
  • CreatorArt Service Project
  • SubjectDwellings
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn Heights (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.