782 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. 782 as one of eight single-family houses built for C. Bull
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No. 782 was one of eight single-family houses that C. Bull had built on Hewitt Place in 1908 to designs by the Bronx architect Charles S. Clark. Like its neighbors it was two and a half stories of red brick, set back behind a small garden, with a hip-roofed porch and a two-story angled bay.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1923
No. 782 is converted to apartments and raised a story
In 1923 No. 782 was turned into apartments and redesigned by the row's original architect, whom this passage of the Longwood Historic District report calls Charles Smith. The house gained a third floor, and its angled bay rose through the whole facade, so that by 1980 it stood out sharply from the other seven houses in the row.
“Converted to apartments in 1923, the residence was redesigned by the original architect, Charles Smith . A third story was added…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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