Tag: Mineola Lodge
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Mystery Friday Foto #15 Solved; Fred Rieder at the Jericho Turnpike Highway Bridge in 1954/1955
Did you identify the Jericho Turnpike Motor Parkway bridge?
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Kleiner’s Korner: The Land of the Motor Parkway Mineola Lodge (Kiosk)
The Motor Parkway and the Mineola Lodge, originally a ticket kiosk between 1910 and 1921, were on land originally owned by the Walkers-Peters and Luhrs families. Surveys here are from 1907 and are from the Motor Parkway Maps and Surveys collection and indicate the area purchased by the Motor Parkway.
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Mystery Foto #5 Solved: A 1950 aerial over the Northern State Parkway from the Cradle of Aviation Archives
The Cradle of Aviation challenged you to solve this final Mystery Foto of the month.
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Sam & Dave’s “Excellent 2019 Vanderbilt Day”- #7 Mineola & Carle Place
Our favorite Motor Parkway father and son team Dave and Sammy Russo journeyed once again on their bikes to explore our favorite parkway from Lake Success to Melville. In the seventh post of the series, Sammy and Dave explored the Mineola/Carle Place section of the Motor Parkway.
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Update: VanderbiltCupRaces.com Exclusive: Memories of Living in the Huntington Lodge in Melville
After 15 years of my searching for images of the Huntington Lodge, Maureen Standish has provided these photos from her family albums and wonderful stories of her Melville childhood.
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VanderbiltCupRaces.com Exclusive: A Motor Parkway Treasure Chest Found in Malverne
A treasure chest of over 100 Long Island Motor Parkway surveys, maps, blueprints and drawings has been discovered in the basement of a commercial building in Malverne, Long Island. The chest belonged to engineer Arthur Archibald who surveyed the Motor Parkway from 1906 to 1938.
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The 1938 U.S. Department of Agriculture Aerial Suvey of Nassau County #1: Searingtown to Garden City
On August 3, 1938, the United States Department of Agriculture conducted an aerial survey of Nassau County. These enlargeable aerials (NC_8_3_38 series) have been posted on the Stony Brook University Digital Research Collections.
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1950 Aerials of the Meadow Brook Lodge and the Mineola Lodge
Here are two rare aerials of the Mineola Lodge and the Meadow Brook Lodge as seen in 1950.
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Sam & Dave’s “Excellent Motor Parkway Adventure” V: East Williston to Mineola
On April 4, 2015, Dave Russo and his 10-year old son Sam experienced a one-day 38-mile bike tour on the Long Island Motor Parkway. In the fifth post of this series, Sammy and Dave exploring the Long Island Motor Parkway from East Williston to Mineola.
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The Motor Parkway Toll Collection Structures: The Elusive #13 & #14 Huntington Lodges in Melville
Going west to east, the 13th and 14th Motor Parkway toll collection structures was the Huntington Lodge, located 300-feet east of Broad Hollow Road in Melville and south of the Motor Parkway.
Rollin’s granddaughter Betty King had this medal. She said she gave it to the National Inventors Hall of Fame Museum…