Got an old picture of my house
Yesterday afternoon, I lent a neighbor my pressure washer. As I was standing on the sidewalk explaining to him how it works, a nicely dressed elderly couple stopped their car and were staring at my next door neighbor’s house. He rolled down his window and said, “that was my grandparents’ house in the 1930s”. To…
Yesterday afternoon, I lent a neighbor my pressure washer. As I was standing on the sidewalk explaining to him how it works, a nicely dressed elderly couple stopped their car and were staring at my next door neighbor’s house. He rolled down his window and said, “that was my grandparents’ house in the 1930s”.
To make a long story short, he sent me a photo his father had taken of my house in the mid 1930s, with what looks to be the owner climbing the stairs after parking his Model A(?) in the driveway.
The “long” story is here:
http://www.brooklynrowhouse.com/old_photos
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Strange because those tax photos were done to identify a building with a posted block/lot number. The photographer set up a sign on the street in front of the entrance with the tax ID on it, or at least in every tax photo I’ve seen.
I ordered one for my building and all I got was a picture looking down the block. I can hardly see my building from such a sharp angle.
………..waste of money
I haven’t found a lot of written history about my neighborhood, although senatorstreet (the user here) probably has a bunch of interesting resources.
I did find a 1918 obituary from the Brooklyn Daily Standard Union on an archive site:
“Annie R. FELD, who died on Friday at her home, XXX XXXX, Bay Ridge, is survived by two daughters, Edna and Mabel. Funeral
services were held at her late home yesterday with interment at Greenfield Cemetery, Hempstead.”
The Felds may have been the original owners.
What a gift to have been given! I love the history of these old homes.
I did a lot of work researching the history of my house (built 1890)and found out quite a bit about the original owner. She was a reporter for 40 years for the NY Herald, the Jersey Journal, president of the NJ Women’s Press Club, an officer of The Daughter’s of the American Revolution, an authority on the history of the federation and a major proponent of women’s healthcare issues.
The one thing I haven’t been able to find, yet are any old photos (I’m in Jersey City not NY so the tax photo thing is out). I’m still looking and haven’t given up hope.
Thanks again for letting us share in your home’s history!
(With a garage no less…how jealous am !??)
this is wonderful…
I’m so jealous!! How great that someone had the old photos- I love stories like this!
Sorry, BRG. I just realized that I never enabled a “contact” option on the blog. It’s there now but I’ll email you.
My neighbor around the corner — actually the guy who found me this house — was the former City Register for NYC. He gave me a framed tax photo of my house for Christmas.
italiana71: my house is right off Owls Head Park, in north Bay Ridge. I knew my garage dated back to 1942 from that tax photo. This new photo shows that it was here in the 1930s as well. There’s some evidence from the framing that it may have been constructed when the street was regraded in the 1910s and all the lower stoops were built on the block. Or at least, that’s what a neighborhood historian alleges happened.
just read the post on your blog…you have a tax Photo….my bad!! I hope they send you some more pics.