On Sunday, June 14, 2008, from noon until 4:00 PM, the Greater
Ridgewood
Historical Society will host an afternoon of family fun celebrating the
“Berry” and the beginning of summer. Be prepared to experience the best
strawberry shortcake in NYC, face painting, crafts and games for
children, pie eating contest, music in the garden, Nolick the Wizard
and tours of the Onderdonk House. It is also the last chance to see “Rites of Passage”, an exhibit on the cemeteries of Queens. Visitors will also have an opportunity to see newly renovated period rooms.
The Society will also have a quilt raffle donated by Eileen Baxter of Woodside
to support the maintenance of the Onderdonk House. Ms. Baxter has been
quilting for over 15 years and has previously donated quilts to the
Onderdonk House, Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal School and the United Fund through New York Life Insurance Company. She is a member of the Quilting Guild of Brooklyn.
The Onderdonk House is a New York City Landmark, and is listed on the
National
and State Registers of Historic Places. Dutch farmers built the house
around 1709, and it remained a farmstead through the 1920s.
Commercial
business took over until the 1970s, when the Greater Ridgewood
Historical Society was founded to restore, maintain and operate the
Onderdonk House as a historic site and museum.
The Onderdonk House, 1820 Flushing Avenue, Ridgewood, is open to the
public
on Saturdays, from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. or by reservation. Admission to
this event is $3.00 for adults, and children under the age of twelve
are free. For information on this and the other programs conducted by
the Society, please call 718-456-1776 or visit the web site: www.onderdonkhouse.org.
The Onderdonk House can be reached by public transportation. Bus: Q-54
passes two blocks away on Metropolitan Avenue. B-57 passes the house on
Flushing Avenue. Subway: "L" line to Jefferson St. (Brooklyn) stop;
proceed five blocks North (right) along Flushing Ave. On street parking
is available, plentiful and free.
This event is funded in part from public service grants from the
Department of Cultural Affairs, City of New York, supported by NYC Council and by members of the Society. |