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Queens: Kissena Boulevard - 59th Avenue
1923

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Queens: Kissena Boulevard - 59th Avenue

1923

Kissena Boulevard, east side, between Fifty-ninth Ave., and Horace Harding Boulevard, showing the James Fogarty house which has been in this family since 1873. Eugene L. Armbruster believes it to be a remodelled 18th Century house; it was again remodelled in 1924. C. Cornwall was the owner in 1860. January 1923. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection.

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