Albert Gallatin House, 1937.

The house at the southeast corner of Vernon Boulevard and 30th Road was the 1800- built Albert Gallatin House (also called the General Ebenezer Stevens House, for its original owner, a participant at the Boston Tea Party). Gallatin was the Swiss born American politician, diplomat, and linguist. He was one of the founders of the University of the City of New York, which is now New York University, and he also founded American Ethnological Society. He served as Secretary of the Treasury for 13 years (the longest tenure of a Treasury Secretary in U.S. history). In 1849 he passed away at this home in Astoria at age 88.

Fun Fact: His visage was on the U.S $500 bill that was printed in 1862–63.

The building seen here was once part of a larger mansion that was split up and moved apart sometime in the 19th century. Like many of the colonial and Victorian homes that survived into the 20th century in Astoria, this home and its wood-frame neighbors were demolished in the 1930s and 1940s as the now sizable population of Astoria was in need of residences and public institutions, and local manufacturing was booming.