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| Image ID | 24 | Click image to enlarge |
| Title | Brook Store |  |
| Image Type | Modern | |
| Image Date | 23 Nov 2002 | |
| Site ID | Br07 | |
| Site Name | Old Brook Store | |
| Address | 378 South Country Road | |
| Source | Deitz | |
| Source ID | 021123/P1010009 | |
| Comment | From South Country Rd., looking south. Beaverdam Creek is to the right. To my eye, the unpleasant second floor addition at the right, over the old 1-story flat-roofed post office (see early photos), destroys much of the character and charm of the original store. «» | |
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| Image ID | 25 | Click image to enlarge |
| Title | Brook Store |  |
| Image Type | Modern | |
| Image Date | 23 Nov 2002 | |
| Site ID | Br07 | |
| Site Name | Old Brook Store | |
| Address | 378 South Country Road | |
| Source | Deitz | |
| Source ID | 021123/P1010010 | |
| Comment | Looking southeast. «» | |
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| Image ID | 257 | Click image to enlarge |
| Title | Brook Store |  |
| Image Type | Historic | |
| Image Date | Early 20th Century | |
| Site ID | Br07 | |
| Site Name | Old Brook Store | |
| Address | 378 South Country Road | |
| Source | Post-Morrow | |
| Source ID | RG3 Series 1 | |
| Comment | There are several versions of this picture in the Post-Morrow archives, including post cards and other photographic prints. This image appears to be a print from the original Frederick W. Kost photograph. This picture is of the store before it was move to the present location -- not only is the date, ascribed to the picture on one copy, before the store was moved, but the fence to the left is known to have fronted the Valentine House (Br30B). An earlier photograph (based on the size of the trees), published in Principe's "Bellport Village and Brookhaven Hamlet," at the Bellport-Brookhaven Historical Society, showing the Valentine house and store before it's move, has a very similar fence.
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| This record's information last modified: 6/5/2008
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| Image ID | 277 | Click image to enlarge |
| Title | Brook Store |  |
| Image Type | Post Card | |
| Image Date | Early 20th Century | |
| Site ID | Br07 | |
| Site Name | Old Brook Store | |
| Address | 378 South Country Road | |
| Source | Deitz | |
| Source ID | Beyer2004/BrookStore.jpg | |
| Comment | This image appears to have been taken at about the same time as Photo ID 257 above. It clearly shows the Valentine House (Br30B) to the left. Image contributed by Richard Beyer, formerly of Brookhaven Hamlet, now of Tuscumbia, Alabama. «» | |
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| Image ID | 341 | Click image to enlarge |
| Title | Old Brook Store |  |
| Image Type | Post Card | |
| Image Date | Abt 1909 | |
| Site ID | Br07 | |
| Site Name | Old Brook Store | |
| Address | 378 South Country Road | |
| Source | Deitz | |
| Source ID | Post Cards historical/BrookStore1 | |
| Comment | The sign on the far right wing reads "Agency of Patchogue Laundry" Post Card is post marked 24 Jul 1909. «» | |
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| Image ID | 396 | Click image to enlarge |
| Title | Valentine House and Brook Store in Winter |  |
| Image Type | Historic | |
| Image Date | Uncertain. Before 1915. | |
| Site ID | Br07 | |
| Site Name | Old Brook Store | |
| Address | 378 South Country Road | |
| Source | Hugh Byrne | |
| Source ID | Byrne/BrookStoreWinter | |
| Comment | This picture clearly shows the siting of the Valentine House (Br30B) and the Brook Store before they were moved in 1915. This site is now the location of the Brook House (Br06) «» | |
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| Image ID | 165 | Click image to enlarge |
| Title | The Brook Store |  |
| Image Type | Post Card | |
| Image Date | Abt 1948 | |
| Site ID | Br07 | |
| Site Name | Old Brook Store | |
| Address | 378 South Country Road | |
| Source | Post-Morrow / Deitz | |
| Source ID | RG3 Series 1 / JD personal collection | |
| Comment | The Post Office was actually the small 1-story addition to the right. A copy of this postcard auctioned on eBay had the date Dec. 25, 1948 written on it. Richard Beyer, formerly of Brookhaven Hamlet, now of Tuscumbia, Alabama, comments on this image: "Our Post Office was the little room on the front right. You had to come here to collect your mail... there was no delivery of any kind. Bea Stern's Grandfather, Thad Moses, owned the store. She was my classmate and he gave me a job there after I flunked out of Syracuse. It was a better education than I got in upstate NY. He was a retired seaman and held a Masters license as I recall." «» | |
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| Image ID | 307 | Click image to enlarge |
| Title | Post Office Desk |  |
| Image Type | Modern | |
| Image Date | 11 Jun 2004 | |
| Site ID | Br07 | |
| Site Name | Old Brook Store | |
| Address | 378 South Country Road | |
| Source | Deitz | |
| Source ID | photos/040611/IMG_1133 | |
| Comment | This Post Office desk, and items on the shelves are from the Brook Store. Big Tom Ellison and his mother ran the original store and tavern during the early 1800's. In 1860 the store was purchased by Hallack Bishop and rebuilt. The store and adjacent house were later purchased by Charles Valentine who ran it with Forrest Reeves. At this time the store included a post office. The property became known as "Valentines Corner" and "Valentine's Brook." When Mr. Noble purchased the property in 1916, he moved the house to 3 Fire Place Neck Road (Historic Structure ID Br30B), and the store, by then called the "Brook Store," to its present location at 378 South Country Road. Adapted from "Bellport Village and Brookhaven Hamlet" by Victor Principe. Photograph is of an exhibit at the Bellport-Brookhaven Historical Society. «» | |
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| Image ID | 168 | Click image to enlarge |
| Title | Brook Store Interior |  |
| Image Type | Historic | |
| Image Date | Uncertain | |
| Site ID | Br07 | |
| Site Name | Old Brook Store | |
| Address | 378 South Country Road | |
| Source | Post-Morrow | |
| Source ID | RG1 Series 10 | |
| Comment | See Image ID 169 for key to individuals. From "Early Photographs of the Hamlet of Brookhaven collected by George Perley Morse 1945-1959." «» | |
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| Image ID | 169 | Click image to enlarge |
| Title | Key to Image 168 |  |
| Image Type | Historic | |
| Image Date | Uncertain | |
| Site ID | Br07 | |
| Site Name | Old Brook Store | |
| Address | 378 South Country Road | |
| Source | Post-Morrow | |
| Source ID | RG1 Series 10 | |
| Comment | This is the key to Image 168. From "Early Photographs of the Hamlet of Brookhaven collected by George Perley Morse 1945-1959." «» | |
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| Image ID | 238 | Click image to enlarge |
| Title | Forrest P. Reeve at the Brookhaven Store |  |
| Image Type | Historic | |
| Image Date | Uncertain | |
| Site ID | Br07 | |
| Site Name | Old Brook Store | |
| Address | 378 South Country Road | |
| Source | Post-Morrow | |
| Source ID | RG3 Series 1 | |
| Comment | From "Early Photographs of the Hamlet of Brookhaven collected by George Perley Morse 1945-1959." Morse comments: Jacob Valintine (sic) in 1916 sold the land of the Store and residence to a Doctor Noble. The home was moved to opposite the "Triangle" on the old Ketcham property [Br30B] and the store was moved across the road and a little south where it stands today as the Brook Store. The land was later sold to C. Oliver Wellington. [He built the Brook House, Br06]. Forrest P. Reeves (sic) married Lillian Breckenridge and lived on the north side of South Country Road. They had two children -- Charles Valintine (sic) and Mary. Mary married Kellogg J. Dominy father of Charles Dominy, County Sheriff. «» | |
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| Image ID | 249 | Click image to enlarge |
| Title | The Boys Out Front |  |
| Image Type | Historic | |
| Image Date | About 1890. | |
| Site ID | Br07 | |
| Site Name | Old Brook Store | |
| Address | 378 South Country Road | |
| Source | Post-Morrow | |
| Source ID | RG1 Series 10 | |
| Comment | In front of the Brook Store. From "Early Photographs of the Hamlet of Brookhaven collected by George Perley Morse 1945-1959." See next image (#250) for key. Based on known birth and death dates, the date for the image is estimated to be about 1890. «» | |
| This record's information last modified: 12/29/2008
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| Image ID | 250 | Click image to enlarge |
| Title | Key to Image ID 249 |  |
| Image Type | Historic | |
| Image Date | Uncertain | |
| Site ID | Br07 | |
| Site Name | Old Brook Store | |
| Address | 378 South Country Road | |
| Source | Post-Morrow | |
| Source ID | RG1 Series 10 | |
| Comment | From "Early Photographs of the Hamlet of Brookhaven collected by George Perley Morse 1945-1959."
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| This record's information last modified: 12/29/2008
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14 Apr 2009