Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Title |
[Winant-Oakley House] |
Object Name |
Print, Photographic |
Photographer |
Gratacap, Louis C. |
Date |
June 12, 1892 |
Collection |
Staten Island Geographic Collection |
Description |
Original B&W print on a beige cardboard mount. Front view of a one-story house identified as the Winant-Oakley House on Rossville Avenue, corner of Arthur Kill Road, in Rossville, Staten Island. The house is built in three sections; the largest section, at left, has two French doors with closed shutters and a Dutch door opening onto a porch, with two dormer windows above. Two children stand near the door of the center section of the house. A wood split rail fence is in the foreground at right. The reverse side of the mount has handwritten inscriptions in two different handwritings: "Old Mean's House Rossville, S.I. N.Y. / built by Peter Winant who died there in 1758 / (see photo by Mr. Winant) -- / This photo by Louis P. Gratacap June 12, 1892 of / old house where Mr. John C. Thompson was born / in 1807. cor Shay's Lane & Arthur Kill Road / Gratacap presented it to Wm T Davis" and "Presented by Mr Wm T. Davis to the S.I. Historical Soc. Nov. 8, 1934." (Keywords: New York) |
Print size |
6 x 8 |
Acquisition |
Gift of William T. Davis |
Earliest Date |
1892 |
Latest Date |
1892 |
Subjects |
Houses |
Lexicon Sub-category |
Documentary Artifact |
Associated People |
Thompson, John C. |
Catalog Number |
34.005.0002 |
Support Acknowledgment |
Online Collections Database record made possible by the Staten Island Historical Society, November 2019. |
Legal Status |
Items represented here are from the collections of the Staten Island Historical Society. Materials reproduced for personal non-commercial use must credit the Staten Island Historical Society. Commercial licensing is available. |