Press and Publicity

The Lent-Riker-Smith Homestead continues to be widely written about and featured:

  • NY1. Channel 1. Leaders Campaign For Landmark Designation For City's Oldest Home.  Nov 27, 2006.

  • Times Ledger. Owners of 1654 Riker farmhouse want to designate site a museum. Adam Pincus. Nov 24, 2006.

  • NBC. Channel 4. Oldest House in New York City. Cat Greenleaf. Nov 13, 2006.

  • Queens Courier. Move to make Lent-Riker-Smith Homestead a National Park. Jessica Lyons. Nov 9, 2006.

  • Queens Gazette. Plan To Make 351-Year-Old House Part Of Nat'l. PK. System. John Toscano. Nov 8, 2006.

  • New York Daily News. "Riker house an island of history." Nicholas Hirshon. Nov 7, 2006.

  • New York Times. "Farmhouse Called Home Is a Home to History, Too." Michelle O'Donnell. Oct 11, 2006.

  • July 29th, 2006, as part of the CBS - Channel 2 special "Landmarks of New York"

  • In late 2005 the property was filmed for the HGTV program “If Walls Could Talk”, which is scheduled to air on Tuesday, June 27th, 2006 at 6:30PM.

  • Queens Courier. Star of Queens: Marion Duckworth Smith. June 15, 2006.

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    View of the Gardens from the Back Patio

  • Queens Courier. "Living Her Fairytale - Photographer is devoted to oldest house in city." Jessica Lyons. May 25, 2006.

  • “A Walk Through Queens” part of PBS series with David Hartman and Barry Lewis. Click on #2
    on the interactive map to see their segment on the Lent-Riker-Smith Homestead.

  • The gazebo on the property won first prize in a competition run by Old House Interiors magazine in 2005.

  • Queens Chronicle.  "Jackson Heights Has It's Own Martha Stewart." February 3, 2005.

  • 2004 - Mrs. Smith authored the highly acclaimed best-seller, “The Romantic Garden”, which features images and stories about the property.

  • Queens Ledger. The History of Queens Section. "A Brief History of The Lent Homestead." June 12, 2003.

  • Boston Globe Magazine. "Farmhouse in Queens." Brian MacQuarrie. 26-28. May 25, 2003.

  • QPTV. "Lent Riker Smith Homestead." Produced by Nancy Littlefield. 30 minute feature. Air dates: October 3rd, 10:00 PM, October 15th, 4:30 PM, October 25th, 4:00 PM. October 2000.

  • Queens Courier. "Paradise Acre: Living in a Dream House." Donald Singer. 18. July 5, 2000.

  • Historic House News. "Leaving a Legacy." Cover Story. 1, 13. Summer 1999.

  • Newsday. Long Island: Our Story, Our Houses. "Eclectic Dignity: The Riker House in Jackson Heights." Cover, H11, H15. November 30, 1997.

  • WPIX Channel 11 News Story. First airing Halloween 1997.

  • Daily News. "They've a Grave Undertaking." Lenore Skenazy. New York. October 27, 1997.

    The Gazebo

  • Paralyzed Veterans of America - 1996 Calendar. All photos Marion Duckworth Smith.

  • Old-House Interiors. "A Dutch Survivor." Lynn Elliot. 42-49. Vermont. Fall 1995.

  • Daily News. "An Island of Rikers History." Stephen McFarland. 21. June 22, 1995.

  • Queens Chronicle. "Oldest Home In Queens Is Open To The Public For A Peek, June 24." Liz Rhoades. 3, 16. New York. June 22, 1995.

  • Newsday. City Living. "Bed or Bath?" Denise Flaim. B31, B37. New York. April 14, 1994.

  • Vows. "Our Wedding." Marion Smith. 1993.

  • Indoors & Out. "Historic Homes: Lent Homestead." Marion Duckworth Smith. 13-16. New Jersey. December 1992.

  • Western Queens Gazette. 51. New York. May 6, 1992.

  • Newsday. FanFare. "Riker's Restored." Denise Flaim. 22-23, 25. New York. April 12, 1992.

  • Western Queens Gazette. "Political Notes." John Toscano. 2. New York. June 26, 1991.

  • Western Queens Gazette. "Gazette Focus." MEG. 19. June 22, 1988.

  • Landmarks of New York City. Harry Abrams. Fall 1988.

  • Western Queens Gazette. "Gazette Focus." MEG. 20. November 25, 1987.

    The Front of the House

  • The Long Island Savings Bank - 1987 Calendar. "The Lent Homestead." Marion Smith. Photo for December. 1987.

  • Queens Tribune, Flushing Edition. "Apple Fix-Up Winners Living a Dream (House)." Martin Lipp. September 11-17, 1986.

  • Western Queens Gazette. "Gazette FOCUS." September 1986.

  • Newsday.  "Peeling Away 300 Years." Gregory Weber. 12-13. August 7, 1986.

  • The Old-House Journal. "Old-House Loving." Marion Smith. 217-221. June 1986.

  • Ryker-Riker Historical Society, Inc. Quarterly. 3-4. April, 1986.

  • Western Queens Gazette. "Gazette FOCUS." MEG. 16. November 20, 1985.

  • Daily News Magazine. "A Family Plot." Elaine Salkaln. 14-15. New York. November 10, 1985.

  • Western Queens Gazette. "Gazette FOCUS." MEG. 13. New York. September 25, 1985.

  • Blue Guide: New York. "The Lent Homestead." 578. 1983.

  • New York Times. Postings; "Little Paradise." May 16, 1982.

  • The Madison Courier. "It Reminds Me: Riker Graveyard." George H. Miller. August 7, 1971.

  • Long Island Press. "This House May Be Haunted." Julie Duffie. 57. March 17, 1968.

  • New York Times. Photo in September 28, 1962 newspaper.

  • Daily News. "Pets Brighten His Lone Job." December 6, 1942.

  • Long Island Star Journal. "Rikers buy 200-Year-Old Lent House At North Beach To House Caretaker Of Famous Old Burial Ground." 2. September 24, 1941. 

  • Article from the 1930's

  • Chronology and ancestry of Chauncey M. Depew.  Eardeley, William Applebie,. 33, 35. 1918.

  • Advance Press Service. "John Jackson Riker." May 18, 1914.

  • Advance Bio-Bulletin. "John Jackson Riker." October 26, 1910.
 

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