Brooklyn: 21st Street (East) - Caton Avenue

1923; 1940

Brooklyn: 21st Street (East) - Caton Avenue

112 East 21st Street, adjoining the S. W. corner of Caton Avenue, showing the Clarkson Mansion, built in 1836. It was later known as the Midwood Club and was for a time used by the Brooklyn Union League after they gave up their Grant Square quarters. In the late 1930's it was known as the Sperry Memorial Building and was then the Flatbush branch of the Y. M. C. A. For additional data see "The New York Times," October 6, 1940. 1923 Views 1,2 Eugene L. Armbruster Collection

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection