Middle Village. St. John Cemetery. Entrance

Middle Village. St. John Cemetery. Entrance

Newtown - Columbia Park Hotel - Middle Village Columbia Park Hotel - Peter Becker's Columbia Park Hotel at the NW corner of Metropolitan Ave. and 80th St. (Formerly Dry Harbor Road), viewed from the south side of Metropolitan Ave. The Cosius Family acquired the lots on the NW corner of this intersection and built a saloon and dance hall on the site which became known as Columbia Park, they operated the facility until about 1890. It became a hotel when the Raines Law went it effect. In May, 1900 Peter Becker became the proprietor. \[Copy of print stamped "Historical Survey of Long Island - Collection of Vincent F. Seyfried."]

Newtown - St. John's Hotel - Middle Village St. John's Hotel - Anton Braun's St. Johns Hotel, SW corner Metropolitan Ave. and Dry Harbor Rd. (now 80th St.). This view is looking west along Metropolitan Ave. In the 1870s and possibly earlier the Hirsch Family operated a general store and saloon here. In October 1885 Peter Hirsch put up a new hotel building on the site with a saloon on the ground floor. By 1890 Anton Braun was the proprietor and he called his establishment the St. John's Hotel, named for the cemetery nearby. It was acquired by Bermel & Co. Monument Works in 1923, and it was torn down. To left of the Hotel is McCloskey's Florist Shop.

Newtown - William Kinsey House - Rego Park William Kinsey House - House with outbuildings on the north side of White Pot Road (Fleet St., now 66th Ave.) a little east of Fitchett St. The house was grey and the adjacent barn was red. Note: outhouse and doghouse to the rear.

Newtown - Woodhaven Boulevard - Rego Park Woodhaven Boulevard - looking south along Woodhaven Blvd. (formerly Trotting Course Lane) from a point near the old White Pot Road (later Fleet St., now 66th Ave.) St. John's Cemetery is on the right (west side). Schwomp owned both houses on the left in 1896, their sites are now under the road bed of the widened Woodhaven Boulevard, and the nearest house would have been in front of 66-11 Woodhaven Blvd.

Newtown - Baum House - Rego Park Baum House - Yellow house with white trim, on the north side of White Pot Road (now 66th Ave.), about 200 Feet east of Trotting Course Lane (Now Woodhaven Blvd.). The house was still standing in 1959 as 85-29 66th Ave., and had been re-shingled, but has since been torn down. George Baum (of the Ridgewood farming family) owned it in 1891 and 1896. Photo taken April 1923.

Newtown - J. England House - Rego Park J. England House - Located on the south side of White Pot Road (now 66th Ave.) east of Trotting Course Lane (Woodhaven Blvd.), about midway between Fitchett St. and Alderton St. View shows front (north) facade facing White Pot Road. Owned by: J. England 1860. E. England 1873, E.J. England 1891, E. England 1896.

Newtown - Metropolitan Avenue - Glendale Metropolitan Avenue - Looking east along Metropolitan Ave. from a point west of Cooper Ave. The fence along both sides encloses St. Johns Cemetery. The building on right is at the SE corner of Cooper Ave. & Met. Ave. is Fred Frey's Hotel. Photo taken April 1923.

Newtown - Lieppe Houses - Rego Park Lieppe Houses - View looking east showing two Lieppe Houses (he built them) on east side of Woodhaven Blvd. (formerly Trotting Course Lane), about midway between Juniper Swamp Rd. (Furmanville Ave.) and White Pot Rd. (66th Ave.). Today these would be in the road bed of the widened Woodhaven Blvd. near 65th Drive. At right center is a fence at the old boundary of St. Johns cemetery approximately on the line of 65th Drive on right in the distance are the Schwomp Houses.

Newtown - Woodhaven Boulevard - Rego Park Woodhaven Boulevard - View north along old Woodhaven Ave. (formerly Trotting Course Lane, and now Woodhaven Blvd.) at White Pot Rd. (later Fleet St., now 66th Ave.). At far left are the Lieppe Houses. The NE corner has the foundations of the White Pot School (P.S. 69) which burned down, the school site was donated by Jacobus Springsteen in 1739, and the burned building was the 4th or 5th school structure on the site. This site is now in the roadbed of the widened Woodhaven Blvd.

Newtown - Dry Harbor Road - Middle Village Dry Harbor Road - Looking north along 80th St. (Dry Harbor Road) from New Juniper Valley Road. The land and building sites to the right or east of the road are now within the expanded St. Johns Cemetery. Rieger owned the small house on the right near Furmanville Ave. The Old Methodist Episcopal Cemetery was on the left side of the road opposite and a little north of Rieger's house. Photo taken April 1923.

\[Metropolitan Avenue and Dry Harbor Road, Queens, NY] Intersection of Metropolitan Avenue and Dry Harbor Road, Queens, NY. Trolley tracks are on Metropolitan Line (# 53). Camera faces east towards Saint John's Cemetery. Bermel's Monuments and Headstones is on the left.

\[Metropolitan Avenue and Dry Harbor Road, Queens, NY] Intersection of Metropolitan Avenue and Dry Harbor Road, Queens, NY. Trolley tracks are on Metropolitan Line (# 53). Camera is facing south; Saint John's Cemetery is on the left, Bermel's Monuments and Headstones on the right.

\[Metropolitan Avenue and 80th Street, Queens, NY] Metropolitan Avenue and 80th Street, Queens, NY, looking east. View of street showing trolley tracks, pedestrians, automobiles, sidewalks, and street signs. There are trees and power lines lining the street.

Queens: Woodhaven Blvd - Fleet Street Woodhaven Boulevard, south of Fleet Street, showing at the right the fence enclosing St. John's Cemetery. April 1923. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection

Queens: Metropolitan Avenue - 80th Street Metropolitan Ave., east of 80th Street (foreground,not seen). St. John's Cemetery is shown at both sides of first mentioned Ave. (fenced in). At the rioht is Fred Frey's hotel at the intersection of Metropolitan and Cooper Ave. April 1923. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection.