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Park Place & Nostrand Avenue, Brooklyn

3 historical photos taken here between 1895 and 1929, oldest first.

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  • Brooklyn: Park Place - Nostrand Avenue, 1895

    Brooklyn: Park Place - Nostrand Avenue

    1895

  • Brooklyn: Park Place - Nostrand Avenue, 1925

    Brooklyn: Park Place - Nostrand Avenue

    1925

  • Brooklyn: Park Place - Nostrand Avenue, 1929

    Brooklyn: Park Place - Nostrand Avenue

    1929

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Brooklyn: Park Place - Nostrand Avenue, 1925

Photo 2 of 3 at Park Place & Nostrand Avenue, Brooklyn

Brooklyn: Park Place - Nostrand Avenue

1925

798-802 Park Place, south side, between Nostrand (left) and Rogers Aves. (right), showing the gardener cottage of Geo. B. Fish. It formerly stood in the middle of the block between Park and Sterling Place. In 1925 it was at the present location. It does not appear in the Brooklyn Atlas of 1929. From 1840 to 1848 it was the home of Geo. B. Fish who was successively a Railroad Agent, President of the Long Island Railroad and Merchant. 1925. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection.

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