Steinway House
- Year
- 1858
- Style
- Renaissance Revival
- City
- Queens, NY
The Steinway Mansion at 18-33 41st Street in Astoria, also known as the Benjamin Pike Jr. House, was built between 1857 and 1858 by Benjamin Pike Jr., a Manhattan scientific instrument maker, as a 27-room summer residence on a 70-acre estate along the Long Island Sound. In 1870, piano maker William Steinway of Steinway & Sons bought the property and developed the surrounding land into Steinway Village, a planned industrial community. In 1926, Armenian-Turkish immigrant Jack Halberian acquired the estate, and his family kept the house for more than 80 years before it was sold in 2014 and restored.
the building
27-room villa. Built as an Italianate and Renaissance Revival villa, the house originally held 27 rooms across a 70-acre waterfront estate — a scale of residence now rare in Queens.
the style
The mansion combines Italianate and Renaissance Revival styles, the fashionable idiom for a substantial villa in the mid-19th century, and it survives as one of the few remaining 19th-century villas in Queens.
More on Renaissance Revivalsignificance
The mansion was designated a New York City Landmark in 1967 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. It is regarded as one of the few remaining 19th-century villas in Queens and an important example of the period's architecture in New York City.
nearby
- Kaufman Astoria Studios
- Bliss Theatre
- Reformed Church of Newtown
- Old Saint James Episcopal Church (Old Saint James Parish Hall)
- Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Lodge Number 878
- RKO Keith's Theater