Newtown - Augustus Bretoniere House - Elmhurst

Augustus Bretoniere House - [other spellings: Bretonnier, Brettoniere] or Dr. J. Glover House. Old addresses no. 70 (right) and 74 (left) Queens Blvd., on the SW corner of Caldwell Ave. (57th Ave.). No. 74 was the Dr. J. Glover House, earlier it was the Bretoniere House [Bretonnier] with a hip roof, after a fire around 1880-81, it was remodeled to a mansard roof by builder J. Van Riper. Also known as the Samuel Renne House (18th Century), British Gen. Howe was here in August 1776. Saloon on right was later built in the Glover tract. Glover House was standing in 1936 as 89-16 Queens Blvd.