780 Hewitt Place

Longwood | built 1908

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

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1908
Charles S. Clark designs No. 780 as one of eight single-family houses built for C. Bull
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No. 780 was built in 1908 for C. Bull as one of eight matching single-family houses on Hewitt Place by the Bronx architect Charles S. Clark. The porches were first built with wooden posts and topped by galvanized-iron cornices with dentils, and the roofs behind the cornices were finished in metal tiles shaped to look like slate.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1980
July 8
No. 780 joins the Longwood Historic District with new doors and iron porch posts
The Landmarks Preservation Commission designated the Longwood Historic District on July 8, 1980, including No. 780 among Clark's eight Hewitt Place houses. Its report listed the changes made to the house since 1908: new doors had been fitted, and, as at Nos. 776 and 778, iron posts had replaced the original wooden ones on the porch.
“Other alterations to the row include new doors at No. 780, brick porches at Nos. 768 and 770, and iron posts at Nos. 776-780.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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