When Giovanni da Verazzano sailed into New York Bay in 1524, he found a treasure in the form of the sweetest water he had ever tasted. The island where it bubbled up to the surface was called “the watering place” until Henry Hudson arrived eighty-five years later and named it Staten Island for his benefactors, the Netherlands States General. Its name was changed again to Richmond after the consolidation of the five boroughs, and that was its official name for more than seventy-five years, until it was changed back to Staten Island in 1975 during the administration of Mayor Abraham Beame. When the Verazzano Bridge opened in 1964, the island’s population was less than 225,000. It has since nearly doubled.
489
GARIBALDI-MEUCCI MEMORIAL MUSEUM 
420 TOMPKINS AVENUE AT CHESTNUT AVENUE
c. 1845
490
WAGNER COLLEGE
HOWARD AVENUE
BETWEEN CAMPUS AND STRATFORD ROADS
491
53 HARRISON STREET
BETWEEN QUINN AND BROWNELL STREETS
1895, CHARLES SCHMEISER
492
110–144 VANDERBILT AVENUE
BETWEEN TALBOT PLACE AND TOMPKINS AVENUE
1900, CARRÈRE & HASTINGS
493
PARAMOUNT THEATER
560 BAY STREET
BETWEEN PROSPECT STREET AND UNION PLACE
1935, RAPP & RAPP
494
FREDERICK I. RODEWALD HOUSE
103 ST. MARK’S PLACE
BETWEEN NICHOLAS STREET AND WESTERVELT AVENUE
1890, EDWARD A. SARGENT
495
PRITCHARD HOUSE
66 HARVARD AVENUE AT PARK PLACE
1853
496
W. S. PENDLETON HOUSE
22 PENDLETON PLACE
BETWEEN FRANKLIN AND PROSPECT AVENEUES
1855, CHARLES DUGGIN
497
AMBASSADOR APARTMENTS
30 DANIEL LOW TERRACE
BETWEEN CRESCENT AVENUE AND FORT HILL CIRCLE
1932, LUCIAN PISCIATTA
498
STATEN ISLAND LIGHTHOUSE
EDINBORO ROAD
BETWEEN WINDSOR AND RIGBY AVENUES
1912
499
THE CONFERENCE HOUSE
HYLAN BOULEVARD
c. 1675
500
CHURCH OF ST. JOACHIM AND ST. ANNE
HYLAN BLVD.,
BETWEEN SHARROTT AND RICHARD AVENUES
1891, REBUILT, 1974
