Newtown - Vietor House - Elmhurst

Vietor House - aka Woodward House. Located at the NE corner of Broadway & Elmhurst Ave. (Old Flushing Ave.), looking SE down Broadway. A Grey Shingled house, the north wing was built in the 18th Century (the original 17th Century Homestead was further north). Lambert Woodward owned the land in 1666 (d.1690), his son Nathaniel (d.1744) married Mary Moore (Samuel Moore's Daughter - of the Moore House). Then Nathaniel and Mary's son Lambert Woodward (b. 1705) owned the farm. The Vietor family lived here by mid-19th Century.