Know This Mansion?

Mystery Photo ()

This photo, taken about 1912 and in the Nassau County Museum Collection, Long Island Studies Institute, shows a North Shore mansion.

This week we ask readers' help in identifying one mystery photo and we shed light on another. Several readers wrote to tell us about the 1912 photo of the Down and Out Club in Maspeth that appeared on July 18. James H. Stines III, of Maspeth, writes that his grandfather, James H. Stines Sr., is the fourth person from the left in the last row. Stines Sr. and his wife, Anna, ran a tailoring factory on Maspeth Avenue. According to Stines, the picture was taken in front of a tavern on Maspeth Avenue, near Clinton Hall. "The Down and Out Club was a social, business and political group of men that came together to strengthen and improve quality of life issues in the Maspeth community," Stines writes. "Politically, they were mostly Democrats . . . The name of the club is a play on their economic status. Although none were wealthy, neither were they 'Down and Out.'"