Newtown - Barn on the Betts Homestead

Collection: Eugene Armbruster Drawings and Photographs

Date: May 1923; 1923-05 Material: Black and white photograph Dimension: 4.5 x 3.5 inches; 400 dpi

Creator: Eugene L. Armbruster Identifier: aql:39088 ela-003872 ela-003872.TIFF

Description: Betts Homestead - View looking NW at the Betts family houses, barn, and out-buildings. At left is the old red shingled Thomas H. Betts house at 58th lane south of Laurel Hill Boulevard; in the center background just visible behind a barn is the new Betts House on the north side of Laurel Hill Boulevard east of 58th Street (Old Betts Avenue), this area was known as Winfield Hill. The Betts family was a prominent Newtown family; this land was first settled by Captain Richard Betts, who came from England with a colony of Puritans, in 1651. Photograph taken May 1923.

Title : Newtown - Barn on the Betts Homestead

Collection : aql:7837

Creator : Eugene L. Armbruster

Date : May 1923; 1923-05

Summary/Description : Betts Homestead - View looking NW at the Betts family houses, barn, and out-buildings. At left is the old red shingled Thomas H. Betts house at 58th lane south of Laurel Hill Boulevard; in the center background just visible behind a barn is the new Betts House on the north side of Laurel Hill Boulevard east of 58th Street (Old Betts Avenue), this area was known as Winfield Hill. The Betts family was a prominent Newtown family; this land was first settled by Captain Richard Betts, who came from England with a colony of Puritans, in 1651. Photograph taken May 1923.

Subject : Farmhouses; Barns; Dwellings; Landscape photography

Relation : Eugene Armbruster Drawings and Photographs

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:39088 ela-003872 ela-003872.TIFF