Hollis Park Gardens Gatepost, Holliswood

Gatepost

Hillside Avenue & 191st Street

Hollis Park Gardens

Holliswood, Queens

 

Hollis Park Gardens was established in 1906. Streets from 191st to 195th were to be lined with substantial homes for affluent middle-class families. An advert in HOUSE & GARDEN in July 1910 noted: "Its homes are not of the stereotyped sort but are distinctive without being expensive."

 

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