2975 Perry Avenue

Bedford Park | built 1912

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1910
Developer George D. Kingston buys the Perry Avenue lots from a lawyer's estate
In 1910, the year the Third Avenue El and the IRT subway reached the Bronx north of Fordham Road, developer George D. Kingston bought three empty lots here from the estate of John A. Amundson, an estates lawyer who apparently never built on them. Kingston split them into ten parcels about 25 feet wide and hired Charles S. Clark, who had already designed houses for him, to plan homes on them.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1912
Export merchant William Wulp becomes the house's first owner
William Wulp, the earliest owner of this house, finished in 1912, had immigrated to New York from Germany in 1886 when he was about 11. Census records list him as an export merchant; his wife Augusta and their children were born in New York. Later the house was converted into a multiple dwelling, as were Nos. 2979, 2981 and 2985.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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