New Garden City history book available at Library


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“Garden City: The First 150 Years” by Constantine E. Theodosiou and Emmanuel C. Theodosiou

Garden City: The First 150 Years

By Constantine E. Theodosiou and Emmanuel C. Theodosiou,

foreword by Garden City Resident and Village Historian William A. Bellmer

Father-son history team Constantine E.and Emmanuel C. Theodosiou are proud to offer this timely pictorial to honor Garden City’s sesquicentennial. William A. Bellmer currently serves as Garden City’s village historian and archivist. Mr. Bellmer, as the author’s note, “was their friendly guide through the recesses of Garden City’s past.”

Garden City was the brainchild of textile mogul Alexander Turney Stewart, who bought the last of the treeless Hempstead Plains to build his village. Garden City would emerge as the Eden of Long Island, a community for people with refined tastes but who believed in living a virtuous life. Thanks to his devoted wife, Cornelia Clinch Stewart, Stewart’s legacy was furthered with the creation of the iconic Cathedral of the Incarnation and the Cathedral Schools of St. Paul and St. Mary. The Garden City Company later ensured that Garden City would remain an ideal place to live and to raise a family. But there is more. Its genteel reputation aside, Garden City showed the entire country that it could also meet a higher purpose, playing a vital role in Long Island’s Golden Age of Aviation and during World War I with the formation of Camp Mills. With so much history to draw from, Garden City is a community nonpareil, a proud product of an extraordinary heritage.

The Garden City Public Library is pleased to say we have several copies of this book available for patrons to borrow. As you read Garden City: The First 150 Years you will find yourself drawn to all 238 pictures of The Village of Garden City in days gone by and the story that goes along with each picture. Published by Arcadia Publishing known for their Images of America series that celebrates the history of neighborhoods, towns, and cities across the county.

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