781 Hewitt Place

Longwood | built 1903

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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

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  1. 1903

    Architect James F. Meehan builds a freestanding frame house for John McGrath

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    In 1903 James F. Meehan designed this frame house on Hewitt Place in the Longwood section of the Bronx for John McGrath. It is the one freestanding house in a district extension otherwise made up of double houses that Warren C. Dickerson designed in 1900 along Macy Place.

    “…there is also one freestanding house built for John McGrath in 1903 by James F. Meehan…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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