Newtown - Rapelye-Purdy House on Bowery Bay Road
Collection: Eugene Armbruster Drawings and Photographs
Date: ca. 1923; 1918
Material: Black and white photograph Dimension:
4.5 x 3.5 inches; 400 dpi
Creator: Eugene L. Armbruster
Identifier: aql:39057 ela-003954 ela-003954.TIFF
Description: Rapelye-Purdy House - The house was located on the east side of Old Bowery Bay Road (now Hobart Street), south of 30th Avenue, between the lines of 54th and 55th Street. The Rapelye-Purdy House survived until the early 1930’s when it was razed to build the massive Boulevard Gardens municipal housing complex replacing the homesteads and truck farms that occupied the site until then. This photograph was taken around 1923. [David Purdy House]
Creator :
Eugene L. Armbruster
Date :
ca. 1923; 1918
Summary/Description :
Rapelye-Purdy House - The house was located on the east side of Old Bowery Bay Road (now Hobart Street), south of 30th Avenue, between the lines of 54th and 55th Street. The Rapelye-Purdy House survived until the early 1930’s when it was razed to build the massive Boulevard Gardens municipal housing complex replacing the homesteads and truck farms that occupied the site until then. This photograph was taken around 1923. [David Purdy House]
Subject :
Farmhouses; Dwellings; Horses
Rights :
Public domain
Coverage :
Woodside, Queens, NY Woodside (New York, N.Y.) Queens (New York, N.Y.) Newtown (Queens County, N.Y.)
Type :
Black and white photograph
Format :
Black and white photograph; 4.5 x 3.5 inches; 400 dpi
Identifier :
aql:39057 ela-003954 ela-003954.TIFF
Subject:
Farmhouses; Dwellings; Horses
Farmhouses; Dwellings; Horses
Rights Notice
Public domain
Public domain
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