Brooklyn College Ditmas House Collection, 193?-196?

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Brooklyn College Ditmas House Collection, 193?-196?

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The Brooklyn College Ditmas House Collection consists of documents pertaining to the history of Brooklyn College and its immediate neighborhood covering the years 1935 through 1963. It is a small collection of correspondences, administrative papers, photographs and newspaper clippings regarding Brooklyn's Ditmas Homestead. There is also some material on Brooklyn College's administration of this homestead, its caretaking by Richard Armstrong, attempts to save the house as a landmark, and its eventual demolition to build Brooklyn College's Student Union Building.

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Curator's Office was renamed Bursar's Office. From the description of Curator's reports, 1934-1943. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155451274 The Ditmas House was a Dutch style wooden frame house built in 1827 and occupied by the Ditmas family. A century later, Charles Ditmas, the founder of Kings County Historical Society, helped to make way for Brooklyn's Ditmas farmhouse to become the site for part of the Brooklyn College campus. In 1935, the Ditmas House passed into the c...