Newtown - Jeromus Vanderveer House - Forest Hills

Jeromus Vanderveer House - (aka Weeden House) Old Vanderveer house with stone barn in rear. North side of Metropolitan Ave. about 50 feet west of Herrick Ave. (70th Ave.). Jeromus Vanderveer inherited his father's 36 Acres in 1879 and bought 60 Acres in 1871, his son Charles farmed here before moving to Hollis. The Weeden's were tenants in 1873 and still occupied in 1922. The Vanderveer's occupied a new house built in 1850 on the south side of Metropolitan Ave.