The lot on which this house is situated was created in June of 1872 when Frederick M. Eastman and Benjamin D. Hicks acquired the land from Silas Mott. It was the intent of Mr. Eastman and Mr. Hicks to develop this area from it's former agricultural use to residential use. The 50' wide by 110' deep lot upon which this house is located was sold to Charles A. Seaman and his wife Emily, of Roslyn on December 6th, 1890 for $ 100. The low sale price indicates that the lot was undeveloped. The deed to the property for this sale contains a covenant requiring the purchaser to erect a house and fences.

The deed reads in part: "... that he (Seaman) will erect on the lot of land hereby conveyed a building to be used for dwelling purposes and shall cost not less than one thousand dollars. The front of said building to be set back at least thirty feet from the front of said lot. Said party hereto of the second part (Seaman) further covenants and agrees with the parties hereto of the first part (Eastman & Hicks) that he, his heirs and assigns will erect and maintain at his or their own expense all division fences between the lot of land hereby conveyed and the adjoining lands owned by the parties hereto of the first part."

Charles Seaman was a forty five year old Real Estate manager and investor when he purchased this lot in 1890. He did not proceed to build a house on the land as required by the covenants in the deed. He held the property for a little over two years and on February 15th, 1892 sold it to Peter L. and Almira Snedeker. The sale price was still $100.00.

It can be assumed that Peter and Almira Snedeker did intend to build a house on the lot. Looking ahead to the next sale of the property on July 19th 1915 when the Snedekers sell the property to Joshua T. Hicks, there is a mortgage of $850.00 on the property indicating that the house was built during the Snedeker ownership. Stylistically the house is a late Queen Anne structure supporting a ca. 1893 construction date. This date is further supported by the Nassau County Tax Assessor's cards.
Peter L. Snedeker, according to the 1900 and 1910 Census, is a white male, born in September of 1865, making him 27 when he purchased the property. He was married a year earlier. They had a daughter Josephine F., born in September of 1891 and a second daughter Bertha A., born in 1902. He and his wife were literate. His occupation is listed as a house painter and he owned a horse at the time the 1910 census was taken.

As late as 1966 the Nassau County Tax Assessors cards indicate that there was a garage and a shed with a loft on the property. Both accessory structures were in poor condition in 1966. The shed was noted as measuring 12' x 14'6" and the garage as 12' x 25'. The shed was demolished shortly after 1966 and may have been the original stable for Peter Snedekers horse. The garage was torn down in about 1976.

The property was sold by the Snedekers as mentioned earlier, to Joshua T. Hicks in 1915. Mr. Hicks owned a local grocery store. Mr. Hicks and his wife Grace had one daughter Lydia (born in 1902). They owned the house for six years and sold it on June 2nd 1921 to Henry C. and Mary D. Foster of Roslyn. The property changed hands five more times until it was acquired by the Roslyn Preservation Corporation on October 31st, 1997 at a foreclosure sale.