Tag: Huntington Lodge
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Mar 24 2026
Kleiner’s Korner: A Look Back at a Motor Parkway Toll Keeper and His Wife
Here is a look at gatekeepers Samuel Sadler and his wife - both long time employees of the Motor Parkway!
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Jan 29 2025
Kleiner’s Korner: December, 1924 - Crime Scene: The Motor Parkway
In this 100 year old look back to December, 1924 newspapers far and wide reported a crime spree occurring on our favorite roadway.
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Nov 21 2024
Kleiner’s Korner: 100 Years Ago on the Motor Parkway (Sept., 1924)
Dateline: The Motor Parkway, Sept. 1924!
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Mar 23 2020
Mystery Foto #12 Solved: A View Along the 10-Mile Curve in Dix Hills & the “View” Postcard Series
To promote the restaurant/inn Petit Trianon and the Motor Parkway in 1912, Long Island Motor Parkway, Inc. hired a photographer to develop the "View Along the Long Island Motor Parkway" series. These postcards were sold at Petit Trianon. My favorite co-author Al Velocci challenged you to identify this postcard.
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Oct 22 2018
Mystery Foto #42 Solved: “Farmingdale State College” and the Long Island Motor Parkway in 1924
Richard Panchyk, the featured presenter at the November 7th meeting of the Long Island Motor Parkway Preservation Society, challenged you to solve another amazing Mystery Foto aerial.
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Apr 21 2018
Documenting A 1950 Melville Driveway-The Former Entrance to the Huntington Lodge
After documenting her childhood home (the moved Huntington Lodge) last month, Maureen Standish provides new evidence that the driveway to her home was the former entrance to the Motor Parkway.
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Mar 27 2018
Updated: Sam & Dave’s “Excellent Motor Parkway Hike” VI: Broad Hollow Road
In the sixth post of the "Excellent Motor Parkway Hike" series, Dave Russo and his 11-year old son Sammy explored the Motor Parkway around the location of the Broad Hollow Road Motor Parkway Bridge and the Huntington Lodge, the future home of Maureen Standish.
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Mar 17 2018
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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Apr 08 2015
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.
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Mar 04 2015
Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge Series#54:Broad Hollow Rd. Motor Parkway/Trolley Bridge in Melville
The 54th bridge in the series documenting the 60 bridges built by the Long Island Motor Parkway is the Broad Hollow Road (Route 110)/Huntington Railroad Trolley Bridge in Melville.
