National Historic Landmark-St. Ann's and Holy Trinity, Brooklyn

National Historic Landmark - St. Ann's and Holy Trinity, Brooklyn

Minard Lafever, one of mid-19th century America's leading architects, secured his reputation with the design of this outstanding Gothic Revival church.

Built in 1844-1847, it was largely funded by Edgar John ...

National Historic Landmark-Quarters A, Brooklyn Navy Yard

National Historical Landmark- Quarters A, Brooklyn Navy Yard

As Commandant of the Navy Yard (1841-43), Commodore Matthew C. Perry occupied Quarters A, residence of the Yard's commanding officers since its construction.

Perry's mission to Japan (1854) opened that country to Western ...

National Historic Landmark-Brooklyn Historical Society

National Historic Landmark-Brooklyn Historical Society Building

This building (1881) is one of the very few remaining intact examples of the work of George B. Post (1837-1913).

Aside from being the first major building on the East Coast to use locally made terra ...

National Historic Landmark-Brooklyn Heights Historic District

National Historic Landmark- Brooklyn Heights

Brooklyn Heights, with its phenomenal views of Lower Manhattan across the East River, was one of New York's most prestigious 19th-century addresses.

Houses and churches remain in excellent condition and present an almost complete architectural catalog of ...

National Historic Landmark-Brooklyn Bridge

National Historic Landmark- Brooklyn Bridge

Completed in 1883, this is among the world's first wire cable suspension bridges. Established a number of engineering precedents in bridge-building.

New Brooklyn Missionary Baptist Church

The New Brooklyn Missionary Baptist congregation, one of Perry's most prominent black churches, formed in 1914. The church was remodeled in 1963 and again in 1989.

Information provided by Florida Department of State.

Picture courtesy of New Brooklyn Missionary Baptist Church.

Brooklyn-Curtis Bay Veterans

This memorial is dedicated to all the Brooklyn-Curtis Bay veterans living and deceased by Brooklyn-Curtis Bay Post 187 American Legion, Department of Maryland. Dedicated May 28, 1995.

Marker is at the intersection of Church Street (Maryland Route 171) and Fairhaven ...

The Buttermilk Channel and Brooklyn Waterfront

Governors Island

This view looks over the Buttermilk Channel to the Brooklyn waterfront, located only 400 yards away. Many theories surround the naming of this narrow waterway. In years past, the channel was much wider and shallower than it is ...

Brooklyn City Railroad Company Building

8 Old Fulton Street

This handsome red brick building was built in 1860-61 as offices for the city of Brooklyn Railroad Company, one of New York City's first large-scale transit operators. By 1867, the company served 22 million passengers annually, operating ...

84th New York (14th Brooklyn) Volunteer Infantry

At the Battle

of

Antietam

On this spot, known as "The Cornfield," the 84th N.Y. Volunteer Infantry

(14th Brooklyn, N.Y. S. M. ) of the 1st Brigade, Col. Phelps, 1st Division

Gen. Doubleday, 1st Corps, Gen. Hooker, was hotly engaged on the

morning of September 17, ...