772 Hewitt Place

Longwood | built 1908

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.

1908
Charles S. Clark designs No. 772 as one of eight single-family houses built for C. Bull
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No. 772 went up in 1908 for C. Bull, one of a row of eight single-family houses on Hewitt Place drawn by the Bronx architect Charles S. Clark. When new, all eight houses looked alike, each set back from the sidewalk behind a small garden, with a short stoop rising to a hip-roofed entrance porch.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1980
July 8
No. 772 still keeps the slate-look metal roof tiles of 1908 when Longwood is designated
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When the Longwood Historic District was designated on July 8, 1980, the Landmarks Preservation Commission's report found that only two houses in Clark's Hewitt Place row, No. 772 and No. 774, still had the original roofing. Their mansard fronts kept the metal tiles that had been chosen to imitate slate.
“…wer e once finished with netal til es meant to resemble s lat e . The original tiles are still intact at Nos. 772 and 774.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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