Hendrick I. Lott House, 1923. In 1720, on land purchased from the Voorhies family (a founding Brooklyn Dutch family), Johannes Lott build a simple farmhouse. His grandson Hendrick I. Lott, in 1800, would go on to create a much larger home, which incorporated the original structure. The exterior of the home is a traditional Dutch-American vernacular farmhouse, while the interior is considerably more grand. The decorative mantles and moldings belie the profession of Lott who was a carpenter for Manhattan homes. Since 2001, the home has been owned by the city and is run through the NYC Parks Department Historic House Trust. At the time of its ownership transfer, it was the longest continual ownership of a property by a single family within the City.

"1638-1668 East 34th Street, west side, south from Ave. P. A view of "mass production" one family brick homes, 1928." These attached one family brick homes are all over Brooklyn, and make up large sections of the residential structures in Marine Park. The sign on the corner says "Now open for inspection.Price $925..."

Hendrick I. Lott House, 1923. In the tidy Marine Park neighborhood stands the Hendrick I. Lott House. With its one-story wings, it maintains the appearance of a relatively humble Dutch farmhouse but has a large central hall and elegant Neoclassical ornamentation. Like the Lefferts, the Lotts were one of the county's wealthiest families, and this substantial Dutch-American farmhouse was at the center of a 200-acre farm. The Lott House has the distinction of being the longest continuously inhabited Dutch-American farmhouse in Brooklyn- Ella Suydam, daughter of Jennie Lott, died here in 1989. The city of New York acquired the property in 2002 and completed an extensive exterior restoration of the house in 2008. The house and grounds are preserved by New York City's Historic House Trust.

"East 31st Street, west side, north from Ave. R, 1929." Interestingly there is no way that this view could possibly be the direction that the photograph notes mark it as. The homes on the west side of 31st Street, north of Avenue R are separate structures. But this view could be nearly any other direction from that corner, as the planned developments in all other directions are so similar in look, as to make them almost indistinguishable.

Still standing in its original orientation on its original site, the Hendrick I. Lott House is a rare surviving Dutch-American house in New York City.

While the fighting of World War II remained on the other side of the ocean, the effects of the war were deeply felt in New York City. Wartime ramifications included serious food shortages, as much American-grown food was being shipped overseas for troops and allies abroad. By 1943, the government had created a push for the cultivation of private lands for locally grown crops. These "victory gardens" sprouted up (pun intended) all over the city. The statistics for New York victory gardens were impressive: 400,000 victory gardens on 600 acres of private land which, over the course of the war, produced 200 million pounds of vegetables! Check out the bounty of New York's wartime farmers!

“By the end of the 1930s, the Tudor-revival row house had become as ubiquitous a feature of Brooklyn’s trollyburbs as the Victorian brownstone was of the nineteenth-century neighborhoods north of the moraine.” Thomas J. Campanella East 31st Street, west side, north from Ave. R, 1929.

"Fillmore Ave., north side, between East 36th and East 37th Sts. This is part of one of Brooklyn's largest developments 1925." During the early part of the 20th century, the City was making plans to drastically alter the waterfront in this area of Brooklyn. The plan was to dredge the Rockaway channel to allow large ships to enter the proposed harbor of Jamaica Bay. This plan prompted a real estate boom in the area around Marine Park and these homes are likely a result of that development.