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Lefferts House
Lefferts House

Lefferts homestead

Facade of a white, two-story, wood-frame house with three dormer windows, window shutters on first floor, and colonnaded entrance, with trees on both sides, trellis in center foreground, and signs on left: "Lefferts Homestead; Open to Visitors," etc. Caption: "Lefferts homestead--the old Colonial farmhouse in Prospect Park, selected by the Municipal Art Society as a structure which should be preserved because of regional importance, was erected upon the timbers and foundation of the original homestead, burned during the prelude to the Battle of Long Island."

IMAGE DATE1954
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