This photograph comes from the back of a vintage picture postcard. All we know about the house is what the postcard tells us: that it was the residence of someone named Newton Bigelow and that it was located in Kew Gardens (obviously one of the first houses built here). The picture also tells us where in Kew Gardens it was. The distant building to the left is the Cuthbert Road side of the Homestead Building [click here to enlarge], which is today the location of the Homestead Deli. That visual clue places this long vanished house near today's Beverly Road and 83rd Avenue. The wide open field that surrounded the Bigelow residence has since grown homes, apartment buildings, streets, and a population of thousands.