Location: Lobster Box Restaurant. 34 City Island Avenue, Block: 5637, Lot:61.
Status: Never landmarked or heard. Building has had several alterations and additions, and its central section is barely visible from the street.
Description from the Bronx Survey: The gambrel roofed central section of the Lobster Box restaurant, although considerably altered, is a significant structure for it may be the earliest residence extant on City Island. It was built by George Washington Horton and probably dates circa 1819, the year he bought land at the southern tip of the island.
Originally situated facing Belden Street at the northeast comer of City Island Avenue, the Horton homestead was turned to face City Island Avenue around 1908 when the avenue was widened. It has been a restaurant for many years, known at one time as the Homestead and the Duryea Restaurant. Before th house was moved, it had two chimneys, a steep wooden stoop that approached a Greek Revival porch (a mid-nineteenth century addition) and four tiny second-story windows.
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