1129 Longwood Avenue, 1928.

Montefiore Hebrew Congregation Synagogue, 1938. The Montefiore Hebrew Congregation was founded in 1901 and six years later moved into their brand new synagogue on Hewitt Place. The Romanesque building was modeled on eastern European synagogue styles but is also topped with a pair of—somewhat fanciful— onion domes, more common in the Eastern Orthodox Christian tradition. For two decades the congregation was led by an impassioned and dynamic leader named Rabbi Jacob Katz. Russian born, he arrived to New York City as toddler, later attending City College, Columbia, and Jewish Theological Seminary before getting a law degree from NYU. He began his career at a Flatbush synagogue before taking the leadership in 1920 of this Bronx community. He also served for 32 years as the chaplain at Sing-Sing Prison. As chaplain he attended to the spiritual needs of the general population and as well as more than 70 men executed for their crimes. Rabbi Katz moved on from Montefiore in the early 1940s. The religious building was designated a landmark in 1980 (as part of the Longwood Historic District) while serving as the home of the Hewitt Place United Church. The imposing structure still stands, with its eye-catching roofline, but sans its ornate stained glass (which is either lost or covered up).

The American Bank Note Company Printing Plant is endearingly referred to as the "Penny Plant" by locals. According to its landmark designation, it was "built at a time when industrial engineering was expressed in the design of industrial buildings." The arsenal-like quality of the three-building complex "embodies a sense of strength and efficiency."

Hunts Point Branch, NYPL, 1929. The Hunts Point Branch of the New York Public Library was the final Carnegie Library to be built in the city. Built in 1928-1929 and designed by Carrère & Hastings, and funded by Andrew Carnegie's endowment, the Italian-Renaissance style building remains the neighborhood library today. The architects of this building designed the main branch of NYPL as well as 13 other Carnegie Libraries. This structure is unique in that it is the only Carnegie built by Carrère & Hastings that utilized terra cotta.

Hunts Point Branch. NYPL 877 Southern Boulevard Designed by Carrère & Hastings, 1929 NYC IL The Hunts Point Branch bears the distinction of being the very last of the Carnegie-funded NYPL branches to be built and was among the 14 Carnegie-funded branches to be designed by Carrère & Hastings. The two-story, palazzo-inspired structure was designed in the Italian Renaissance Revival style with a blind arcade at the base and arched windows throughout. Its brick façades are accented with ornate terra-cotta details and stone trim. At the time of its construction, automobiles had become a common mode of transportation, so the facility also includes a one-story garage on its west side. The garage housed the Bronx Book Wagon, which served the community from 1928 (a year before the library opened) until the 1980s. Hunts Point was designated a New York City Individual Landmark in 2009.

American Bank Note Company Printing Plant ca. 1925 Squeezed out of lower Manhattan by rising land prices and the need to expand and modernize its production line, in 1909 The American Bank Note Company began construction of a new plant in the Hunts Point section of the Bronx designed by Kirby, Petit & Green. Completed in 1911, the steel-framed, T-shaped building was organized along the sloped site and divided into two wings. A narrow five-story building with a crenellated tower containing the engraving and lithography departments fronted Lafayette Avenue, while the printing presses were housed in a larger interior three-story rear building with sawtooth skylights that flooded the spaces with glare-free northern light. Massive brick piers articulate the street façade, contributing to the building's fortress-like character. Two thousand employees worked in the factory which was considered the most advanced printing plant of the time. The building was designated a New York City landmark in 2009 and will be renovated for mixed office and retail uses.

Edward G. Faile Mansion, 1908. Edward Faile was a wealthy tea and sugar importer who constructed a massive mansion in 1832. The larger estate had been in his family since prior to the Revolutionary War and included other structures that dated to that century. Called "Woodside" the home was fronted with massive Doric columns and surrounded by forest woods. A late 19th century account of the home also noted three other random but specific features of the estate: a flock of peacocks, a large Cedar of Lebanon tree, and two sturdy wooden chairs that supposedly came over on the Mayflower. Faile died in 1870 and his family continued to reside in the home until the 20th century. In 1908, the American Bank Note Company purchased the large estate. The homes on the tract were soon after razed. Today the massive American Bank Note Company occupies the land that once included the stone mansion.

"877 Southern Boulevard. New York Public Library Hunts Point Branch. Children outside library, 1929." This photograph is likely on the opening day of the library.

Denison-White Mansion, 1915. Erected in circa 1850, this former mansion is the oldest structure in the Longwood section of the Bronx. Constructed as the private residence of Charles Denison, a Manhattan merchant, the building was originally located just north of the junction of Southern Boulevard and Leggett Lane. Later owned by Denison's son-in-law, Samuel White, the house was likely moved at the end of the 19th century as the streets of Longwood were being laid out. According to the LPC designation report for the Longwood Historic District, very little of the original building remains. Extensive work on the home at the start of the 20th century removed the large, six-columned portico that fronted the building. The small porch entrance supported by Doric columns was created during these alterations. For most of the 20th century, the building housed a series of firms and community spaces, including a real estate office, quite a few social clubs, and a Police Athletic League center. By 2006 the property was long abandoned and derelict when a pair of Manhattan-based nonprofit developers of affordable housing planned a large development behind the old mansion. The development included the restoration of the mansion's facade as a community center and the construction of 93 units of affordable housing, with a portion reserved for grandparents (or other older relatives) raising grandchildren. The construction and restoration were completed in 2010.

American Bank Note Co.'s Plant, ca. 1911. The American Bank Note Company was incorporated in 1858 (though its history dates back to the 1790s and the work of engraver Joseph Perkins). For the rest of the 19th century it was the nation's most prominent printing and engraving company, producing bank notes, postage and revenue stamps, bonds, stock certificates, checks drafts and letters of credit for governments and institutions. American Bank Note produced American currency from 1858 to 1879 and even made Confederate money for a year or so during the Civil War. In 1911, they built this five-story brick plant in the Bronx, designed by Kirby, Petit & Green, a firm who were known for other printing facilities including the plant that produced the San Francisco Examiner. The Gothic, fortress-like character of the building with its large and complete frontage of Lafayette Avenue from Tiffany to Barretto Streets makes it an imposing structure in this neighborhood. The American Bank Note Plant moved out of this building in 1986 (to a modern facility in Rockland County) and in the ensuing decades the building housed garment manufacturing, an alternative high school, and most recently a luxury condo named The Banknote.