Lewis H. Latimer House Museum Designated: March 21, 1995 34-41 137th St, Queens 34-41 137th Street was the home of the African-American inventor, Lewis H. Latimer, renowned for his work in the field of electric lighting. In 1881, Latimer received a patent for an improved method for the production of carbon filaments used in lightbulbs. The house was built in a Queen Anne style frame house, and it offered a comfortable meeting place for prominent African-American civic and cultural leaders. Watch the virtual tour of Latimer House

Fitzgerald/Ginsberg Mansion ARCHITECT: John Oakman DATE: 1924 STYLE: Tudor Revival This house was built in 1924 for Charles and Florence Fitzgerald, two affluent New Yorkers, who then sold it to Ethel and Morris Ginsberg in 1926. The Ginsbergs were a prominent family that made its fortune supplying sash, door and wooden trim for builders. It is an example of a Tudor Revival style mansion in Flushing and it was owned by the Ginsberg family for more than seventy years.

E.E. Mitchell Mansion, June 6, 1909. E.E. Mitchell was a lawyer and businessman who once owned a large parcel of land in Flushing. The property included a few large homes including this one. The mansion stood though the first decade of the 20th century, but its date of demolition is unknown. Today two large co-operative developments called Linden Hill Houses and Mitchell Gardens occupy the former land of the estate.

Fitzgerald-Ginsberg Mansion, ca. 1924. This Tudor Revivial mansion was built in 1924, designed by architect John Oakman, for Charles and Florence Fitzgerald. The house was constructed immediately adjacent to an area of the Old Country Club and golf course, one of the oldest country clubs in America. Two years after the home was completed the Fitzgeralds sold it to Morris and Ethel Ginsberg, whose family remained there for seventy years. Once one of many large, picturesque, revival-style houses that dotted the outer boroughs—evidence of the prosperity and affluence of the 1920s—this house is, according to the LPC, "one of the last great mansions from this period still standing in Flushing."

At this address once sat a house referred to as Innerwyck. It was the second-oldest residential building in Queens after the Bowne House. It stood at the corner of Union Street and Bayside Avenue. Built around 1670, the home played an important role during the American Revolution. Burned in a fire on Christmas 1779 that was blamed on local patriots, its loyalist owner, Colonel Archibald Hamilton, quickly reconstructed the home. The building gets its name from Hamilton’s his Scottish roots: Hamilton was born near Innerwick Castle in the East Lothian region of Scotland. The Mitchell family purchased the home in 1804. The current Mitchell-Linden Gardens apartments across the street from where the mansion stood are named for them. The homes' final owners were the architect and philatelist Clarence Wilson Brazer and his wife Esther, an interior decorator. The couple painstakingly restored the structure together, but upon his death in 1956 (Esther had passed in 1945), the house was soon after demolished and replaced with a no style, two-story medical office. Some small trace of Innerwyck still exists today. At the property's northeastern corner on Bayside Avenue, a remnant of the Innerwyck's gate stands.