Broadway, Elmhurst. Viewed from Queens Boulevard, 1921. The building at left is the Broadway House, opened as a hotel by John Heeg in about 1890. The building was partially demolished in 1930. The conical tower at center is part of the Newtown Town Hall, first built in 1803 and expanded to include a courthouse in 1848. Later, the building also included the local police precinct. The Town Hall was demolished in 1960. Today, the Libra Triangle green space references the judicial history of the site.

Photo documenting streetcar rail and roadway condition along Queens Boulevard, west of Woodhaven Boulevard; December 8, 1930. The two-and-a-half story wood-frame home at the southeast corner of Woodhaven Boulevard was owned by Louis Bolsen, a florist.

Southeast corner of old Queens Blvd and Grand Ave, ca 1909. Jonathan Fish built in 1716 as a tavern on the site of the Ralph Hunt House. It was a Loyalist Headquarters during the American Revolution and was The Union Hotel after the war. The house was then a Presbyterian Parsonage 1817-1822, and finally a store & residence of Peter Duryea (1852), and later Joel Brown (1873). Newtown Gas Co. bought the site in 1909 for a storehouse. The house auctioned June 20, 1916, for $175 to a wrecker, and was torn down July 10, 1916.

First Presbyterian Church of Newtown, 1924. The First Presbyterian Church of Newtown is the oldest church in the borough of Queens. The congregation was established by a community of English settlers who had moved into the area in the 1650s and constructed an all-purpose thatched roof building that also served as school and town hall. In the first decades, the community was a mix of English dissidents, French Huguenots, Dutch Reformed, Church of England adherents, and others. In 1715 the church received its charter and was officially named the First Presbyterian Church of Newtown. The church was an early advocate of religious freedom in America and was the site of much strife during the American Revolution. The Presbyterian community was vehemently opposed to British rule and suffered at the hands of British soldiers, who jailed church members and used the church as a prison before demolishing it. The church building seen here was erected only four years after the end of the war. Finished in 1787, the "Old White Church" saw the community through considerable growth during the 19th century. The surrounding graveyard (which predated this structure by decades) was the final resting place of generations of community members. In 1891 a wealthy parishioner willed $70,000 for the construction of a new building. The new brownstone church was completed across Queens Boulevard in 1895. This wood-frame structure continued to be used for church functions until it was heavily damaged by a fire in 1928, and razed one year later. The cemetery remained even after the removal of the structure; the parish sold the land in 1958. At that time, some unknown number of graves were unearthed and removed to Evergreens Cemetery in Brooklyn. Today an apartment building occupies the lot where once the 18th-century church and cemetery stood.

Elmhurst Branch, Designed by Lord & Hewlett and completed in 1906, the Elmhurst Branch typified the suburban style of Carnegie libraries. It was a single story, freestanding structure within a larger lot. The library was built with an original landscaped rear garden, which was removed and replaced with a parking in the mid 20th century. The surrounding neighborhood, established as Dutch community in the 17th century, became a thriving multi-ethnic enclave in the 20th century. As such the library offered publications in Bengali, Chinese, English, Gujarati, Hindi, Korean, Spanish, Tagalog and Urdu. The Georgian Revival building survived 106 years through numerous renovations and additions before it was demolished in 2012, much to the disappointment of preservationists. It was replaced in 2016 by a larger modern glass and masonry structure.

MACDONALD PARK Queens Boulevard between Yellowstone Boulevard and 70th Road Monument: William Henry Deacy, 1934 Queens Boulevard was expanded gradually over many years, beginning in the early 1920s. After an expansion phase in 1931, this small park was formed. In 1933 it was named after Captain Gerald MacDonald (1882-1929), a World War I veteran and Forest Hills resident who was held in great esteem by the community. Toward the park’s eastern end is the Gerald MacDonald statue, which was designed by architect William Henry Deacy, sculpted by MacDonald’s brother-in-law, Frederic de Henwood, and unveiled in 1934.

Old St. James Episcopal Church. 1922. St. James is the oldest surviving Anglican building in New York City and the oldest structure in Elmhurst. Built in 1735, the single-story wood-frame church served the Anglican community in what was then the town of Newtown. By 1848 the parish had outgrown the building and moved to a new church, though the old building remained, as did its small churchyard cemetery. After the church moved to the new structure, this building was used as a Sunday School and parish hall. Its tower (part of the original building, and replaced in 1760) was destroyed in a storm in 1883 and never rebuilt. In the 1883 renovations after the tower collapse, Victorian architectural elements were added, such as drip moldings, decorative bracketing on the gables, and pointed arched window openings. A necessary and thorough restoration of the church was undertaken in 2004, and the church was brought back to its polished 1883 Victorian style. Today it is used as a meeting space for community groups. The church has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1999 and in 2017 was calendared for landmark designation.

W.F. Shattuck House at the southeast corner of Corona Avenue and 87th Place. The ornate, central tower of Newtown High School can be seen in the distance at left.

Dutch Reformed Church of Newtown, 1927. The Reformed Church of Newtown was founded in 1731 and built its first church building soon there after in a Greek Revival style. Early services were conducted in Dutch, the language of its farmer and tradesmen founders. That church stood for about 100 years, surviving the Revolutionary War when it was commandeered by British troops as an armory. In 1835 the original building was replaced by the present Georgian-style edifice. The church property also includes (unsurprisingly) a graveyard, likely dating to the founding of the congregation. Today the community, reflecting the multiculturalism that is present throughout Queens, the church now offers services in English and East Asian languages.