QHS Presents Story of Corona

A talk on “The Story of Corona”, will be presented on Sunday, January 8 at 2:30 p.m. at the historic Kingsland Homestead, located at 143-35 37th Ave., just two blocks from Downtown Flushing.

The Queens Historical Society invites visitors to take a trip back to old Corona through a slide lecture using vintage photographs to recreate Corona’s past. The talk, “The Story of Corona”, will be presented on Sunday, January 8 at 2:30 p.m. in the historic Kingsland Homestead, located at 143-35 37th Ave., just two blocks from Downtown Flushing. The lecture is free with admission to Kingsland Homestead, $3 adults, $2 students and seniors. Free, off-street parking is available in the Temple Gates of Prayer lot, entered from Roosevelt Avenue at Parsons Boulevard.

Corona gained its name from its position on the crown of a hill. “Early factories in Corona made porcelain, portable houses, and from 1893 into the 1930s, Tiffany glass,” Queens Historical Society President James Driscoll, who will deliver the talk, said. From 1943 to 1971 jazz trumpeter Louis Armstrong lived in the neighborhood. Other famous residents included jazz greats Dizzy Gillespie, Cannonball and Nat Adderley, Clark Terry and Jimmy Heath, who still lives in Corona.

Visitors will also have the opportunity to tour Kingsland Homestead’s exhibitions, which explore the history of the homestead and landmarks in Queens.

For more information, call 718-939-0647 ext. 17, Monday through Friday, 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.