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Preserving Brooklyn History: Frank Cousins
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Frank Cousins was a renowned photographer of colonial architecture who hailed from Massachusetts. He was hired by the New York City Art Commission to photograph sites worthy of protection in 1913. Here are a series of farmhouses and homesteads he photographed in Brooklyn.
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972 Flatbush Avenue
Bergen Homestead Also known as the Bergen's Island homestead, this Dutch colonial home was built in 1655-1656 by Thomas Spicer on what was then known as Meutelaer's Island (now Bergen Beach). John Bergen, who took possession of the property in 1791, added two additions to the home in 1801 and 1819.
972 Flatbush Avenue
\[Albermarle Road and Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, NY] Photograph of Albermarle Road and Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, New York. The photograph looks north on Flatbush Av and includes a cinema with two movies showing: Walk A Crooked Mile with Dennis O'Keefe, Louis Hayward, Louis Allbritton, and Carl Esmond and Gallant Blade with Larry Parks and Marguerite Chapman.
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