Lewis H. Latimer House

[3] Lewis Latimer sought to work together with members of this community to establish a local chapter of the Unitarian Church as part of his belief in racial integration.

[3] There were a number of drawings, dated prior to 1885, on which he claimed his credit as "inventor," found within his Queens home.

[5] A one-story studio was added to the south-east corner of the home and, in 1912, the attic was enlarged with dormers.

[2] Originally located on Holly Avenue, the Latimer House was moved to its current home in Leavitt Field in 1988 when threatened by demolition.

Mitchell with assistance from the Queens Historical Society quickly formed The Committee to Save Latimer House, with those two as co-chairmen; this was done in response to the house's imminent destruction, reported from William Asadorian, librarian from the Long Island Division of the Queens Borough Public Library.