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Southeast corner of old Queens Blvd and Grand Ave, ca 1909. 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.

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87-10 Grand Avenue

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.
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53-01 Seabury Street

Queens: Seabury Street - 54th Avenue 403 Seabury Street at the N.E. corner of Fifty-forth Avenue, showing the new Presbyterian Parsonage on its new site. View No. 2 shows from left to right the new and old Parsonages. The one at the left was remodelled when it was moved to its present site. View No. 3 shows the old parsonage now located at the S.E. corer of Fifty-third Avenue and Seabury Street. Eugene L. Armbruster states the old parsonage was built either in 1820 or 1821. He also believes that the small building in the foreground of view No. 2 is the old school house. He states also that the Rev. Geo. Whitefield preached in 1784 in an orchard which covered the site of the parsonage. July 1925 View 2: June 1923 View 3: July 1925. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection
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