About This Item

  • TitleVanderveer-Cortelyou house
  • Call NumberNEIG_0786
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryFacade (partial) of large, two-story, wood-frame house with three dormer windows, large front porch, and colonnade entrance; two trees in foreground. Caption: "The Vanderveer-Cortelyou house at 412 East 25th St. as it looked in the late winter of 1945-6. This house was remodeled from the original Capt. Cornelius Vanderveer homestead that formerly stood on the east side of Flatbush Ave. near the present Vanderveer Pl."
  • Date1946
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 6 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteCropped: approximately 1/3 of original image appears to be missing. On verso: date inscribed: oct. 20, 1946. On verso: "Used in Flatbush Historical Booklet & Supplement." 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.