page_title: Lent Homestead and Cemetery
hierarchical_section_title: Lent Homestead and Cemetery
caption_attribution_description: English: Lent Homestead in Steinway, borough of Queens, New York City. The earliest part of the house was built in 1729. It remains an intact farmhouse in the Dutch Colonial style. This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 84002918
context_page_description: The Riker-Lent-Smith Homestead and Cemetery is a historic house and cemetery at 78-03 19th Road in East Elmhurst, New York. The neighborhood, within the New York City borough of Queens, is called Steinway in the National Register of Historic Places designation document.
  The earliest part of the house was built by Abraham Riker in 1656. He was an early settler of New Amsterdam, and a member of the Riker family, for whom Rikers Island nearby is named, The house was owned by the Riker and Lent families for much of its history. In 1729, the house was expanded and additions were built by then owner Abraham Lent, a descendant of Abraham Riker. The small graveyard contains not only the graves of family members, but also that of Irish revolutionary and physician William James MacNeven who died in 1841 and who had stayed with the Riker family. Around 1800 the house was again expanded to its current size. It remains an intact house in the Dutch Colonial style. Current owner Marion Duckworth Smith and her late husband Michael Smith began restoration work in 1980, and the house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
context_section_description: The Riker-Lent-Smith Homestead and Cemetery is a historic house and cemetery at 78-03 19th Road in East Elmhurst, New York.  The neighborhood, within the New York City borough of Queens, is called Steinway in the National Register of Historic Places designation document.
  The earliest part of the house was built by Abraham Riker in 1656.  He was an early settler of New Amsterdam, and a member of the Riker family, for whom Rikers Island nearby is named, The house was owned by the Riker and Lent families for much of its history.  In 1729, the house was expanded and additions were built by then owner Abraham Lent, a descendant of Abraham Riker. The small graveyard contains not only the graves of family members, but also that of Irish revolutionary and physician William James MacNeven who died in 1841 and who had stayed with the Riker family.  Around 1800 the house was again expanded to its current size.  It remains an intact house in the Dutch Colonial style. Current owner Marion Duckworth Smith and her late husband Michael Smith began restoration work in 1980, and the house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
  The house is the oldest known existing residential structure in the borough of Queens, New York. See the list of oldest buildings in the United States of America.
caption: House as seen from 19th Road
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