Shops at Nos. 805-811 Flatbush Avenue, opposite Caton Avenue; May 11, 1929. These wood-frame structures were demolished in 1930, as Caton Avenue was extended east from Flatbush Avenue, along the path of the alley at right. Prior to the extension, the alley led to stables and further storefronts.

The home of Dr. Homer L. Bartlett, No. 88 Fenimore Street; 1910. Bartlett, described in his 1904 New York Times as "one of the most prominent physicians in Brooklyn," was born in Vermont in 1830, and came to New York to complete his medical training in the 1850s. His trade brought him to Kings County in 1856, where he treated an outbreak of yellow fever in the town of New Utrecht before settling in Flatbush. In Flatbush, Bartlett was involved in a wide array of civic institutions, including the Health Board, of which he was founder and commissioner; the Police Department, where he became president of the the board; and the gas and water utilities; in addition to a stint as schools commissioner. In his medical practice, Bartlett enjoyed a long association with the Kings County Hospital and the Kings County Penitentiary, as well as affiliations with trade associations like the American Medical Association. In what spare time he had left, Bartlett was an active member of his local Masonic Lodge and wrote fiction based "on the Indian legends of Long Island." Bartlett's wife, Margaret Scott Bartlett, asserted a different sort of influence on the town's development: at her suggestion the street adjacent to her home was named for the novelist James Fenimore Cooper, a family friend.

View west along Fenimore Street, from Bedford Avenue; 1914. The large house at center is No. 115 Fenimore Street. According to the Prospect Lefferts Gardens Historic District designation report, No. 115 was completed in 1896, and is one of the first two houses constructed in Lefferts Manor, the development established in 1893 by James Lefferts on the grounds of his family's farm. The wood-frame house is still standing today, albeit in rough shape following a 2010 fire.

Linden Theatre, Flatbush Avenue; June, 1928. Located at the eastern terminus of Caton Avenue, the Linden Theatre opened in 1911 had a twenty year run on Flatbush Avenue. The theatre was demolished in 1931 and replaced by a bank branch that survived until 2020 when it was cleared for a new residential building.

151 Linden Boulevard, at the northwest corner of Rogers Avenue, 1932.

Greenhouse of William Brown, father-in-law of photographer Adrian Vanderveer Martense, in the aftermath of the blizzard of 1888. Brown was a player in the Brooklyn brewing business. In 1884 he led a group of investors in the purchase of the Bedford Brewery in present-day Crown Heights, and proceeded to upgrade its equipment and practices. Following a research and development trip to Europe, Brown returned to Kings County with the perfect recipe for lager beer, and the perfect name for his new brew: Budweiser. Unfortunately, the Anheuser-Busch corporation had already trademarked the name, following their own delegation's trip to the brewing city of Budweis in Bohemia. (Brown backed down, and the business was renamed Nassau Brewery.) An avid horticulturist, Brown commissioned the Lord & Burnham architectural firm to design a pair of heated greenhouses straddling the planned right of way for Robinson Road (now Parkside Avenue), east of Flatbush Avenue.

Adrian Vanderveer Martese house and front gate, after the Blizzard of 1888; March 14, 1888. Martense, the photographer of this collection, was a descendant of well-heeled Flatbush families and a prominent member of the village community. As clearly marked by the "A.V. MARTENSE, AMATEUR," photography was a leisure pursuit for Martense. A graduate of Rutgers and Columbia Law, Martense maintained a Montague Street practice throughout his professional life, while dedicating time to social pursuits, including the Knickerbocker Field Club, of which he was a founder; the Midwood and Crescent Clubs; and the Reformed Dutch Church, where he served as a deacon. Martense's photographs, which cover, roughly, the years 1872-1889, depict scenes of daily life in Flatbush, and document the residences of his contemporaries and neighbors on Diamond Street (now Lenox Road). Martense died on January 3 1898, succumbing to Bright's disease (the historical name for a variety of kidney diseases) at the young age of 45. The funeral was held at the family's Flatbush Avenue home (at the corner of, fittingly, Martense Street), where he had relocated in later years. He is today interred at Green-Wood Cemetery.