The Stevens House was located on Vernon Boulevard and 30th Road in the Astoria neighborhood of Queens in New York City.

[1] The original house "stood on the top of a hill, from which there was an extensive view of the East River or Sound, which before the channel was freed from its many obstructions was most picturesque with its ever-changing, whirling, eddying currents.

"[2] Stevens purchased the land from the Hallett family not long after the American Revolutionary War.

[5] During the War of 1812, Stevens hosted New York City mayor DeWitt Clinton (the former U.S.

Senator from New York and later the 6th Governor of New York) and several other prominent military figures at the house on July 14, 1813, for the inauguration of the military works for the protection against the British located at Hallett's Point (known as Fort Stevens in his honor[6]).