Moving Kingsland

Date: May 2nd, 2024
Time: 6:30 pm.
Price: $7  
Location: In person at Kingsland Homestead, 143-35 37th Avenue

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The Queens Historical Society presents its latest gallery exhibit Moving Kingsland. In 1965, the Kingsland Homestead, the last remaining British colonial farmhouse in Queens became the borough’s first historic landmark. It then narrowly escaped demolition by being physically moved down Northern Boulevard from 155th Street to its current location two miles away at Weeping Beech Park in the fall of 1968. Moving Kingsland will open on Thursday, May 2nd at 6:30p.m. with a slide show presentation on the history of the house and also the Queens Historical Society which has called the English-Half House, built in 1774, its home since 1973. The exhibit features never before seen color prints developed from the original Kodachrome slides recently discovered in the society’s archives.

“The exhibit will not only celebrate that historic day, September 30, 1968, when the house was moved by trucks down Northern Boulevard as hundreds of people watched and cheered, it will also celebrate the history of the Queens Historical Society,” said Jason D. Antos, QHS executive director and curator of the exhibit. “Few recall that the Queens Historical Society began as the Flushing Historical Society in 1904 and that President Theodore Roosevelt was its first honorary board member.”

The Kingsland Homestead is open Tuesday’s, Saturday’s and Sunday’s for tours
from 2:30pm until 4:30pm.

For more information, visit www.queenshistoricalsociety.org, or call 718-939-0647, Ext. 18.

Photo Caption:
(Courtesy Queens Historical Society)

The Kingsland Homestead as it was being moved down Northern Boulevard on
September 30, 1968.