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Shore Road looking east from 99th Street, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, June 3, 1914. Photographed for Joseph P. Day.

1914

9901 Shore Road

Shore Road looking east from 99th Street, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, June 3, 1914. Photographed for Joseph P. Day.

IMAGE DATE1914
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Johnson House/Shell Mansion/Fontbonne Hall ca. 1914 Designed by the Road McNally Brothers, ca. 1890.

Originally the home of Tom L. Johnson, a three term mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, the property is rumored to have belonged to actress Lillian Russell and “Diamond Jim” Brady in the 1920s. During Prohibition, the house was also rumored to have been used as a casino and speakeasy. Purchased by the Sisters of St. Joseph in 1937, it became Fontbonne Hall Academy, a private girls’ Catholic school.

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