GC Landmarks
If you have any GC Landmark picture suggestions please send them to me:
Jim Manley GC64@ISI-InfoSys.com
History of the design of Garden City
Those of you interested in the origins of Garden City might want to take a look at this 1998 article by NY Times columnist: MARCELLE S. FISCHLER
http://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/15/nyregion/an-immigrant-s-vision-created-garden-city.html
One tidbit I learned is: Streets all over the village are named after Stewart's heirs, including Merillon, Clinch, Butler, Weatherall and Lefferts.
Garden City Landmarks
Garden City Hotel
7th Street Business District
223 7th Street
St. Pauls School
Library
link to Library history page
http://www.gardencitypl.org/index.php/history-of-gcpl
Post Office
Long Island Railroad
Cathedral of the Incarnation
Jim Manley GC64@ISI-InfoSys.com
History of the design of Garden City
Those of you interested in the origins of Garden City might want to take a look at this 1998 article by NY Times columnist: MARCELLE S. FISCHLER
http://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/15/nyregion/an-immigrant-s-vision-created-garden-city.html
The article talks about AT Stewart's (as in Stewart Avenue) design for the area around the period of 1870. It also talks about the work done by his wife: Cornelia Clinch Stewart and their family.
One tidbit I learned is: Streets all over the village are named after Stewart's heirs, including Merillon, Clinch, Butler, Weatherall and Lefferts.
Garden City Landmarks
Garden City Hotel
7th Street Business District
223 7th Street
St. Pauls School
Library
link to Library history page
http://www.gardencitypl.org/index.php/history-of-gcpl
Post Office
Long Island Railroad
Cathedral of the Incarnation