Syosset Scrapbook Part Nine

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The photos in this section are arranged by location, from north to south (to the best of our knowledge).

Historical note: In 1924, 18 houses were erected in Syosset. The real estate agents were Titus and Carnes, Raymond Smith (Office, Oyster Bay), Henry W. Warner, A. M. Bayles, Albert Cheshire and Sons and Syosset Estates Inc.

Aluminaire house created by Frey and Kocher for the Allied Arts and Building Products Exhibition in New York
Architect Wallace K. Harrison bought the house for a summer home and moved it first to Syosset, where it is shown above in 1931, then to his property in West Hills, in Huntington. It is now preserved as a landmark in Central Islip.

"Postwar development streets in Syosset were quickly lined with thick landscaping."
(Edward J. Smits, Nassau Suburbia, USA, Friends of the Nassau
County Museum, Syosset, New York 11791, 1974)

9 Ryan Street, 1952
Home of Vincent and Solveig Holm from 1947-1966
"Note that there are a chicken coop and barn behind the large maple tree.
When they sold their property, four houses were constructed...
The original house is still there." Bob Holm
(image courtesy of Robert Holm)

19 Calvin Avenue (corner of Crestwood Street)
Home of Robert and Nellie Boslet from 1952-1988
Top, 1957 and 1960; Middle, 1971 and back of house on moving day, 1988;
Bottom, c. 2001

10 Meadowbrook Road
Home of Robert and Nellie Boslet in the early 1940s
Top, c. 1940, Nellie Boslet and Robin (the house on far right was the Cassidy home at #8);
Bottom, c. 2001

11 Meadowbrook Road
Home of Edward and Mary McAuliffe
Top, early '50s; Mary McAuliffe with daughter Maureen, 1954 (the house on left was the Harrison home at #15); bottom, building the den and garage, October 15, 1956
(images courtesy of Maureen McAuliffe Smith)

196 Berry Hill Road, 1940s (now 5 Rodeo Drive)
Home of William and Wilhelmina McAuliffe
Top row, Wilhelmina on porch and front view in 1944;
third row, side view facing south and shed in rear of property
(abutting the Sir Ashley Sparks estate with its apple trees);
second row, views from porch facing Berry Hill Road, north and south
bottom, 5 Rodeo Drive, c. 2001
(images courtesy of Maureen McAuliffe Smith)

1 School House Lane
The Weber home, early 20th century, on the corner of School House Lane
and Oyster Bay Road (later Berry Hill Road)
Current home of the Sheedy family.
(photo postcard courtesy of Leone Knettel Taylor)
William J. Knettel and his son William L. Knettel were in charge of the greenhouses
around the turn of the century. German- speaking society people came every
weekend from New York City for parties.  (information source: Leone Knettel Taylor)
"The main part of the house was Dutch construction, c. 1728.
A family named Victor used to live here.   Also, King Zog and a Greek princess stayed here while his house was being updated on Rt. 106. Loretta McQuade told me this story." Mike Sheedy
"He lived in the Weber home while his estate on Muttontown Road was being revamped." Diane Oley, niece of Leone Knettel Taylor

1 School House Lane
The Weber home, rear, c. 1880
Mildred Knettel Vanstane wrote on the back of this photo that Mr. Weber is standing on the porch at the back of the house. She also identified her father
William Knettel as the boy on the left, her Uncle George Knettel next and her grandfather William Knettel.
(image courtesy of Diane Oley)

New York Herald Tribune ad c. 1952 for Greenway-in-Syosset. These homes are located off Cold Spring Road with the street names: Wisteria Place, Laurel Lane, Azalea Drive, Lilac Drive, Crocus Drive, Iris lane and Narcissus Drive.
(image courtesy of David Land)

10 Church Street, c. 1980s
Home of the Mueller family from 1952-1977
Duncan and Mary Beaton purchased the house from the VanCott family, c. 1945.
Their daughter, Mary (aunt of Joseph Mueller), sold it in 1989.
(images courtesy of Joseph J. Mueller)

16 Church Street, c. 1943
Home of Howard and Cecilia (Horan) Kreutzer
Sally Anne Lynch on bicycle and a pre-war Lincoln Zephyr in driveway
(image courtesy of Sally Anne Lynch)

68 Church Street
Home of Stanley and Florence Kwiatkowski
Top, House in the '50's; Florence C. Wencko Kwiatkowski sitting next to the goldfish pond;
Middle, mortgage dated September 11, 1951 and payment coupon book;
Bottom, 1987 real estate ad
In 1926, Mr. Henry Underhill had this house built for his daughter who married a Crosby. The Crosbys sold to Harry L. and Lillian Smith. In 1951, the Smiths sold it to Stanley and Florence Kwiatkowski for $13,500.00. A mortgage was obtained for $8,500.00 with monthly payments of $68.00 for 15 yrs.
In the picture top right, in the background is Leventritt's horses' field. When Mr. Leventritt lent his pasture to others, they frequently forgot to water their horses. The horses would push over the fence to drink from the goldfish pond. Stan would come home from work and water the horses who would be stomping their hooves for attention; the fence was reinforced.
(history, comments and images courtesy of Florence Kwiatkowski Sendrowski)

12 North Street, February 1935
Home of Chris and Ann Carl and son Sherwood;
Sally Anne Lynch is in carriage with Airedale Terrier, Larry, standing guard.
(image courtesy of Sally Anne Lynch)

83 Cold Spring Road
Home of William and Laura Smith Knettel
Bottom: left, March 9, 1940; right, William digging out from the storm of 1961.
(photos courtesy of Diane OIey)

High Street, off what is now Cold Spring Road, c. 1916
Laura Smith Knettel had lived in the big house with her parents, Henry and Carrie Smith. (Henry came from Greenlawn to manage the McGuire Pickle Works.) Laura's children, Leone and Mildred, were born in the little house.
The houses were on land owned by John Topps.
High Street started at Brookville Road (now Cold Spring Road, near the Fire Station), continued where the RR parking lot is now, crossed Jackson Avenue, ran along the rail road tracks past the freight depot and stopped at Willis Avenue and Kings Street (no longer on map).
The Lawrence Zabel family later lived in the big house for many years until 1960. After they moved, both houses were torn down to make more room for the RR parking lot. And there was no more High Street.
(photo postcard courtesy of Leone Knettel Taylor)

Laura and William Knettel with daughters Leone and Mildred, c. 1916
The house where her parents lived is in the backgound.
(image courtesy of Diane Oley)

10 Jackson Avenue
Sale of property from Samuel and Marcella Martino
to Charles and Josephine Garney (Gurney)
May 3, 1923
(images courtesy of the Wencko family)
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10 Jackson Avenue
Property search in connection with the sale of property from Charles and Josephine Garney (Gurney) to Andrew and Mary Wencka (Wencko), April 2, 1925
(images courtesy of the Wencko family)
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10 Jackson Avenue, c. 1937
"1939 World's Fair Committee needed mature trees for their
Flushing Meadow site in New York. This tree was taken from the backyard of
10 Jackson Avenue, Syosset, the home of the Wencko Family. The tree was
hand dug by laborers and placed on a flat bed truck. Note the fire siren
tower atop the firehouse on Muttontown Road." Florence Kwiatkowski Sendrowski
(images courtesy of Mary Wencko Gaida)

10 Jackson Avenue, 1945
Florence and Stanley (Little Cement) Kwiatkowski, ages 4 and 8
with the Chicken
"During WW II almost every family in Syosset had chickens. Everything
was rationed and chickens were a very important food source.
When 'drifters' arrived in town some of your chickens would be stolen.
Depending, the chickens would be sold to your neighbors or on occasion there
would be a mix up and you would buy back your own chickens. There were 'locals'
that stole your chickens." Florence Kwiatkowski Sendrowski
(photo courtesy of the Wencko & Kwiatkowski families)

The Henry Brower Boarding house beside the railroad station near Ira Road
Many Burden estate workers in 1916 stayed there.
(photo courtesy of Tom Montalbano)

Convent Road and 4th Place, now 63 Convent Rd., 2005
(image courtesy of Linda Manning-Koziatek, whose house on 4th Place is shown in background)

Convent Road across from Greenway Drive South, 1951
Johnnie Delin with cousin Anna-Lisa Weiss
Houses on left in the background: 95 Convent Road, home of the Ebel family;
97 Convent Road, at present still the home of the Moisan family.

Convent Lane (now Road), 1913
Home of Bonifacy and Helena (nee Gurna/Gurny) Brusjewski Kwiatkowski
Pictured are Helena with children Maryanna Brusjewski
and Stanley S. Kwiatkowski Sr.
"I believe this house was near the water tank and on the left side. Helena came to America in 1904 and was a widow by 1910 with two small children.
She married Bonifacy Kwiatkowski in 1911." Florence Kwiatkowski Sendrowski.
(photo courtesy of the Kwiatkowski Family)

The George Mann Homestead, c. 1909, across from St. Mary's Home on Convent Road.
The Mann family obtained this house in the late 19th century. It had belonged to the Schenck family dating from its construction c. 1685.
Mann's farm land on present day Convent Road is now the site of the Village School.
(Photo by George Edward VanSise)

The Schenck-Mann house after it was restored by Raymond Burckley, who bought it in the mid 1940s.
The house (and barn on right) is a designated Federal Landmark.

Home of Theodore and Georgiana Van Wicklen May
From the early 20th century to c. 1940, Theodore and Georgiana operated the general store on the corner of Convent Road and Jackson Avenue called "May's Corner."
(image courtesy of Karrin Marie Tollin Werrenrath)

The Walters' home being built in 1903 by Albert Budd and James Benton
at Jackson and Walters' avenues
(image courtesy of Virginia Budd Vail Hofstad)

Left, the Williams' home at 175 Jackson Avenue in 2003, built 1923
Right, new house on site in 2006
Eugene Williams was Syosset's fire commissioner during the '30s. German POWs worked on his farm during World War II. (source: Images of America Syosset, by Tom Montalbano; photo on right, courtesy of Tom Montalbano)

The Budd home being built in September 1902 on what later became Devine Avenue
Samuel A. Budd (Civil War veteran), Albert F. Budd, Sam Jr. and Edwin Budd
(images courtesy of Virginia Budd Vail Hofstad)

Nellie Budd with children Albert and Violet,
in front of home on Devine Avenue in 1909
(image courtesy of Virginia Budd Vail Hofstad)

Jackson and Devine Avenues, 1922
Ralph Kaiser home built in 1825
(image courtesy of Virginia Budd Vail Hofstad)

13 The Spur, c. 1980
Home of Eleanor and Al Cronemeyer for 32 years
(image courtesy of Eleanor and Al Cronemeyer)

6 Dawes Avenue
Home of the Weidig family c. '40s to 1963
Left, c. 1950, Charlie and older brother Al with mother Clare in doorway
Center, 1956, with the Syosset Gospel Church partially visible on right
Right, 1959, '59 Chevy is in front. The Ken Voorhest house is on left; he was the builder of his
and the Weidig house as well as other neighborhood houses.
(images courtesy of Charles Weidig)

34 Dawes Avenue
Home of Robert and Nellie Boslet from 1945-1952
Top middle picture taken from side yard of Locust Grove School;
Middle row left, Robin Boslet standing on property which was later to become the Raynor house (below); Right, the chicken coop in the back yard;
Bottom left "Little House on the Prairie", c. late '40s, Robert Boslet and daughter Pam
Bottom right, 2001

28 Dawes Avenue
The Boslet family car parked in front of the Raynor house
The Monilaws house is in background.
This 1940 Cadillac with a roll-up window between the front and back seats (controlled from the back seat only, a wonderful device for the children to shut out their parents) was bought by Bob Boslet from one of the local estates around 1950.

Syosset Gardens (Harmon Homes) March 2, 1949
"...behind property that later became the Syosset Hospital. Syosset Gardens included some experimental homes built with steel foundations." Tom Montalbano.
(photos courtesy of The Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Gottscho-Schleisner Collection,
clockwise from top left: LC-G612-54625, LC-G612-54626, LC-G612-54627, LC-G612-54624)

The Sieleff House at Jackson Avenue and Jericho Turnpike, pre-1950
"Mr. Sieleff was a farmer who leased the Jackson land for some time
before it became Lollipop Farm." Tom Montalbano
(image courtesy of Maureen McAuliffe Smith)

34 Georgia Drive, 1954
Home of William and Elsie Stricker, 1954 to present
(image courtesy of Randy Stricker)

Donald Drive, c. 1965
Home of the Starr family
Left to right, Crowe family child, Lisa Howard, Paul Engle
(image courtesy of Eileen Green Alexander)

6 Debra Place
Home of the Green family
Left, 1971, with Jessica Siegel
Right, backyard, 1974: The Harry B. Thompson Jr. High School is in the background.
(images courtesy of Eileen Green Alexander)

8 Newmarket Road, 1964
Home of the Alfred Boccafola family
(image courtesy of Joyce Boccafola Michels)

Suburban at Syosset ad, c. 1953
House pictured on top left is 12 Newmarket Road,
home of the Chernow family since 1953
Suburban at Syosset homes are also on Gainsboro Lane and Gary Road; some were moved from Newmarket Road to make way for the expressway.
(images courtesy of Larry and Jennifer Chernow)

Circle Drive
Left, Betty Endersby with daughter Connie in carriage, 1954, in front of their home;
Center,'50s;
Right, 1984
(from the Newsday Magazine, May 6, 1984)

3 Clearland Road in Clearview Village, 1985
Home of the Burke family 1955-1985
(image courtesy of Randee Burke Tavarez)