Horatio Parkway & 53rd Avenue, Queens
3 historical photos taken here in 1924, oldest first.
Photo 1 of 3 at Horatio Parkway & 53rd Avenue, Queens
Queens: Horatio Parkway - 53rd Avenue
Horatio Parkway, west side, between 53rd Avenue and 230th Street, Bayside, showing the F.N. Lawrence Mansion, an imposing frame structure. According to Mr. Armbruster, the mansion, situated on a large estate, was owned by F.N. Lawrence in 1860 and by W.H. Sanger in 1873. Beers's 1873 map also shows it as the Sanger property, just below the Boyce farm on Oakland Lake (Douglas Pond). The estate, known as "The Oaks," was opened by a member of the Hicks family and afterwards owned by Lawrence and later by John Henderson and John Taylor. In 1891 it was owned by John Taylor (Wolverton's map) and then comprised 263.25 acres. It was the F.H. Taylor property in 1909. The distant views were most likely taken from Horace Harding Boulevard, formerly West Alley, which marked the southern limit of the estate. The Horatio Parkway location marks the site of the mansion proper, were it standing when the new thoroughfares were laid out. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection 1924 Views 1,2,3
Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection
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