1925

Queens: Bayside Avenue - Strang Avenue

Bayside Ave. (also Twenty-ninth Ave. at this point), between (15th and 16th Streets) 155th and 156th Streets, showing in a set of four views the Walter Bowne house and its out-buildings. One, Bedell, states that a Revolutionary War burying place was northeast of the house, to which, 35 years ago, necessitated the crossing of the stone wall seen in the background of No. 4, at the large Buttonball tree, the stump of which remains today. At that time, flat stones used as markers were still standing; they having been obliterated when the orchard was removed by the wagons. Members of the Bowne family (3rd generation since the War) mentioned the Burial Ground and Spring and Water Bay to him. However, Eugene L. Armbruster states that it was on the line of old 17th (now 157th) Street. For more data, see, other views. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection. April 1925.

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection