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30th Road & Vernon Boulevard, Queens

18 historical photos taken here between 1922 and 1940, oldest first.

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  • Queens: 30th Road - Vernon Boulevard, 1922–1925

    Queens: 30th Road - Vernon Boulevard

    1922; 1923; 1925

  • Queens: 30th Road - Vernon Boulevard, 1922–1925

    Queens: 30th Road - Vernon Boulevard

    1922; 1923; 1925

  • Queens: 30th Road - Vernon Boulevard, 1922–1925

    Queens: 30th Road - Vernon Boulevard

    1922; 1923; 1925

  • Queens: 30th Road - Vernon Boulevard, 1922–1925

    Queens: 30th Road - Vernon Boulevard

    1922; 1923; 1925

  • Queens: 30th Road - Vernon Boulevard, 1923–1925

    Queens: 30th Road - Vernon Boulevard

    1923; 1925

  • Queens: 30th Road - Vernon Boulevard, 1923–1925

    Queens: 30th Road - Vernon Boulevard

    1923; 1925

  • Queens: 30th Road - Vernon Boulevard, 1923–1925

    Queens: 30th Road - Vernon Boulevard

    1923; 1925

  • Queens: 30th Road - Vernon Boulevard, 1923–1925

    Queens: 30th Road - Vernon Boulevard

    1923; 1925

  • Queens: 30th Road - Vernon Boulevard, 1927

    Queens: 30th Road - Vernon Boulevard

    1927

  • Queens: Vernon Boulevard - 30th Road, 1931

    Queens: Vernon Boulevard - 30th Road

    1931

  • Queens: Vernon Boulevard - 30th Road, 1931

    Queens: Vernon Boulevard - 30th Road

    1931

  • Queens: Vernon Boulevard - 30th Road, 1931

    Queens: Vernon Boulevard - 30th Road

    1931

  • Queens: Vernon Boulevard - 30th Road, 1931

    Queens: Vernon Boulevard - 30th Road

    1931

  • Queens: 30th Road - Vernon Boulevard., 1937

    Queens: 30th Road - Vernon Boulevard.

    1937

  • Queens: Vernon Boulevard - 30th Road., 1937

    Queens: Vernon Boulevard - 30th Road.

    1937

  • Queens: Vernon Boulevard - 30th Road, 1940

    Queens: Vernon Boulevard - 30th Road

    1940

  • Queens: Vernon Boulevard - 30th Road, 1940

    Queens: Vernon Boulevard - 30th Road

    1940

  • Queens: Vernon Boulevard - 30th Road, 1940

    Queens: Vernon Boulevard - 30th Road

    1940

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Queens: 30th Road - Vernon Boulevard, 1922–1925

Photo 4 of 18 at 30th Road & Vernon Boulevard, Queens

Queens: 30th Road - Vernon Boulevard

1922; 1923; 1925

30th Road, south side, between Vernon Boulevard and 12th Street, showing the General Ebenezer Stevens mansion, also known as the Albert Gallatin House. The two houses shown, formerly comprised one mansion which was cut in two parts and moved apart. The house was built in 1800 and when General Stevens took up his residenoe here he named the place "Mount Napoleon.' The General was a member of the Boston Tea Party and served throughout the Revolutionary War. He died in 1823. His son, Kerby Stevens, married a daughter of Albert Gallatin, United States Secretary of the Treasury under Thomas Jefferson. Gallatin died in this house in 1849, aged 88. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection View 1: 1922 View 2: 1923 Views 3,4: 1925

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