Forest Hills
Written on January 19, 2010
Last weekend was our annual road trip to New York to visit family for the holidays. In typical whirlwind fashion we left Maine Saturday morning arriving at my dad’s house in Northern Westchester County late in the afternoon. Then spent Sunday afternoon at my wife’s brother’s apartment in Queens, leaving after dinner and arriving home around midnight.
Except for a clogged fuel filter in the Benz at the outset and a pee pee accident at the rest area in Massachusetts on the way home it was smooth sailing all the way. It was good to get out of our normal routine for a couple days and spend a little time with everyone.
I love Forest Hills, Queens. The network of meandering tree lined streets are home to some of the most amazing houses in all of NYC. There are Tudor style wood frame mansions and enormous stone churches everywhere you look.
It was a planned community built for the wealthy and designed by Frederick Law Olmstead around a central cobble and brick square below an elevated (LIRR) railroad station. On the square sits the Forest Hills Inn built in 1912 complete with a tower and a series of stone archways and English style gardens. Someday I would love to do a detailed photo project on the community but for now these few snapshots will have to suffice.
Filed in: D80.