A Picture History of Kew Gardens, NY - The Richmond Hill Golf and Country Club


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Pictures dated c. 1909 and c. 1900
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A Hill named Richmond

In 1895, North Richmond Hill was made into the Richmond Hill Golf Course. The greens were bordered by today's Kew Gardens Road, Union Turnpike, Metropolitan Avenue and Lefferts Boulevard. In the bottom picture, Richmond Hill residents have gathered at the club house for what looks like a Fourth of July celebration.

[Click here to read an 1897 newspaper article about the Richmond Hill Golf Club.]

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References:

Barry Lewis, Kew Gardens: Urban Village in the Big City,
pp. 13 - 14 (Kew Gardens Council for Recreation and the Arts 1999)
Vincent F. Seyfried & William Asadorian, Old Queens, N.Y.
in Early Photographs, p. 165 (Dover Publ. 1991)

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