Photographs of the house at 135 Joralemon Street in Brooklyn Heights
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The Photographs of the house at 135 Joralemon Street in Brooklyn Heights consist of six black-and-white photographic prints showing exterior views of the wooden-frame Federal-style house located in the Brooklyn Heights neighborhood. The photographs focus on the front porch of the house and its decorative cast-iron grillwork that dates from the mid-19th century.
Historical note
The two-story-plus-attic Federal-style wooden clapboard house located a 135 Joralemon Street in Brooklyn Heights was built on or before 1833. In the mid-19th century, ornamental cast iron was added to the front porch of the house. As of 2011, this house is one of the few remaining wooden houses in Brooklyn.
Sources:
- Lancaster, Clay. "Joralemon Street." In Old Brooklyn Heights: New York's First Suburb. New York: Dover Publications, 1979.
- Morrone, Francis. An Architectural Guidebook to Brooklyn. Layton, Utah: Gibbs Smith, 2001.
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The Photographs of the house at 135 Joralemon Street in Brooklyn Heights consist of six black-and-white photographic prints showing exterior views of the wooden-frame Federal-style house located in the Brooklyn Heights neighborhood. The photographs focus on the front porch of the house and its decorative cast-iron grillwork that dates from the mid-19th century.
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Preferred Citation
Identification of item, date (if known); Photographs of the house at 135 Joralemon Street in Brooklyn Heights, V1991.076, Box number, Object ID number; Brooklyn Historical Society.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Margot Gayle, 1989.
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