Lent Homestead and Cemetery


Lent Homestead and Cemetery
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
House as seen from 19th Road
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Location	78-03 19th Rd., East Elmhurst, New York
Coordinates	40°46′23″N 73°53′31″W / 40.77306°N 73.89194°W / 40.77306; -73.89194Coordinates: 40°46′23″N 73°53′31″W / 40.77306°N 73.89194°W / 40.77306; -73.89194
Area	1 acre (0.40 ha)
Built	1729
Architectural style	Colonial, Dutch Colonial
NRHP Reference #	84002918^[1]
Added to NRHP	February 02, 1984

Lent Homestead and Cemetery is a historic house and cemetery at 78-03 19th Road in East Elmhurst, New York. The neighborhood, within the New York City borough of Queens, is called Steinway in the National Register of Historic Places designation document.^[2]

The earliest part of the house was built by Abraham Lent in 1729. He was a relative of the Riker family, for whom Rikers Island nearby is named, and the house was owned by the Riker and Lent families for much of its history. The small graveyard contains not only the graves of family members, but also that of Irish revolutionary and physician William James MacNeven who died in 1841 and who had stayed with the Riker family.^[3] The house was expanded later in the 18th century and then doubled in size around 1800. It remains an intact house in the Dutch Colonial style. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.^[2]^[4]

Side view of house from the west.

References

↑ National Park Service (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
1 2 Dibble, James E. "National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form - Lent Homestead and Cemetery". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation. Retrieved 27 December 2013.
↑ The WPA Guide to New York City (1982 Reprint by Pantheon Books ed.). Works Progress Administration. 1939. p. 566. ISBN 0-394-71215-3.
↑ "Lent Homestead photos". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation. Retrieved 27 December 2013.

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