Newtown - Queens Boulevard - Elmhurst

Queens Boulevard - Corner house SE corner of old Queens Blvd and Grand Ave. 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.