Masonic Temple of Astoria (Advance Masonic Temple), June 2, 1927. The lodge was named for the USS Advance, a 19th century US Navy brigantine used in two Arctic rescue missions in search of the lost Franklin polar expedition. The Advance was abandoned in 1855, icebound, having discovered the Polar Sea.

Astoria Greek Archdiocese of North and South America. St. Athanasios chapel in the same building, 1927. This quaint, and now long-gone Astoria building was once home to the Astoria Greek Archdiocese of North and South America. The Holy Synod of Greece founded the Diocese in Astoria in 1918. By 1927 some of the Greeks worshipping here at the chapel of St. Athanasios were planning a new church. St. Demetrios, at 30-11 30th Drive, had its groundbreaking ceremony in late 1927.

Astoria Square, March 13, 1931. Newtown Avenue, Astoria Boulevard (formerly Flushing Avenue and Fulton Street), 21st Street (Van Alst Street), and 27th Avenue (Franklin Street) converge at Astoria Square, which sat at the northeast corner of Astoria Park, a 19th century green space that has since been build over. At left is the “Astoria flatiron building” at 18-23 Astoria Boulevard, built in 1889 for the L. Gally furniture showroom.

Second Reformed Church of Astoria, beyond the BMT/IRT Astoria Line elevated tracks, March 14, 1931.

Second Church of Astoria, Reformed in America, 1927. The church congregation (called in various places the Second Reformed German Protestant Church) was organized in the 1850s. The church building was not constructed until the congregation had secured appropriate funds, some time after the Civil War, likely the late 1860s. By 1870 the church reported "with cheer" that ," their meeting's on the Lord's day have been well attended."