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Westchester Avenue and East 167th Street
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Looking northeast along, Westchester Avenue at East 167th Street, April 26, 1938. The elevated structure in the distance is the IRT Pelham Bay line as crosses over the Bronx River, above Westchester Avenue.
Whitlock Avenue Station, IRT Pelham Line
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Whitlock Avenue, south of Westchester Avenue, July 13, 1917. The dirt path pictured is Whitlock Avenue, which today carries an elevated section of the IRT Pelham Line (6) through the Foxhurst section of the Bronx, before the line makes an easterly turn to cross the Bronx River. The site in the foreground is now the Whitlock Avenue Station. At left, gantries over the tracks of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad are visible. Two of the brick apartment buildings at right are still standing on the south side of Lowell Street.
Vyse Mansion
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Vyse Mansion, ca. 1893. Described as "one of the Bronx's most attractive homes" the Vyse Mansion was surrounded on all sides by tall two-story Corinthian columns that created a first floor piazza and a second floor porch. According to an 1886 'History of Westchester County' (this area was Westchester at that point), the home was erected by a wealthy Irish linen merchant named Thomas Richardson and later owned by its namesake, a T.A Vyse. The large estate was known as "a model of rural beauty" with grottos, aviaries, statues, and conservatories. A 'History of the Bronx' published in 1906 states the mansion was demolished "a few years ago" and had been replaced by a number of houses.
Westchester Avenue Station, NYW&B Railway
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New York, Westchester & Boston Railway, November 17, 1916. The New York, Westchester & Boston Railway was an electric commuter railroad in the Bronx and Westchester County in operation from 1912 until 1937. For most of its history it was operated by the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad. This Westchester Avenue Station was designed by famed architect Cass Gilbert, and completed in 1908. The Gothic style building is richly decorated with terra cotta tiles. This was one of 12 stations Gilbert was commissioned to design for the railroad, and one of the handful that were actually constructed. The style of this station displays details that Gilbert would repeat a few years later on his NYC magnum opus, the Woolworth Building. Service to the station ceased in 1931, with the line being completely out of service by 1937. With the introduction of the subway to this area of the Bronx in the 1920s, the stations on this line never saw the commuting traffic that had been planned for. Today the station is abandoned, overgrown, and nearly in ruin. The station, which partially projects over the tracks below, has been listed on the Landmarks Conservancy's list of endangered places for years. In 2012 a proposal was created for the restoration and reuse of the building, but as of 2018, this project does not seem to have commenced.
Hunt Inn
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Hunt Inn (also called Fox Farm House), ca. 1890. Bryant Avenue, west side, from Westchester Avenue to East 167th Street, showing the Hunt Inn which was erected in 1666. It stood in rear of the Foxhurst Mansion on the grounds bounded by the triangle of Westchester Ave., West Farms Road and East 167th Street. It was a prominent rendezvous of British officers during the American War for Independence. The home was destroyed in a fire on Easter Sunday 1892.
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Westchester Avenue Station, NYW&B Railway
\[Whitlock Avenue and Freeman Street, Bronx, New York] Survey photograph documenting conditions on Whitlock Avenue near its intersection with Freeman Street in the Bronx, NY, in preparation of construction of the IRT's Pelham Line. At right is a station of the New York, Westchester & Boston Railway advertising frequent trains to Mt. Vernon, New Rochelle and White Plains.
Westchester Avenue Station, NYW&B Railway
Bronx: Westchester Avenue - Whitlock Avenue Westchester Avenue, south side, between Whitlock Avenue and Edgewater Road, showing the Westchester Avenue station of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad. August 21, 1940 P.L. Sperr
Westchester Avenue Station, NYW&B Railway
\[Whitlock Avenue Station] Photograph of the elevated tracks of the IRT's Pelham Line near Whitlock Avenue Station. In the foreground is a station of the New York, Westchester & Boston Railway. At right is the Bronx River, with the tracks passing above.
Whitlock Avenue Station, IRT Pelham Line
\[Whitlock Avenue, Bronx: IRT Pelham Line] Survey photograph of Whitlock Ave, Bronx prior to construction on the site of Whitlock Avenue Station on the IRT Pelham Line.
Westchester Avenue Bridge
Bronx: Freeman Street - Boone Avenue Freeman Street, north side, east from Boone to Westchester Avenues. Shown too is the bridge that carries the Interborough subway across the Bronx River; it is on Westchester Avenue. August 21, 1940 P. L. Sperr
1316 West Farms Road
Bronx: West Farms Road - North Freeman Street. West Farms Road, north from Freeman Street, to Edgewater Road. April 26, 1938. P. L. Sperr
Westchester Avenue and East 167th Street
Home Street Presbyterian Church
Bronx: Home Street - Bryant Avenue Home Street, north side, east from Bryant Avenue to WWest Farms Road. At the N.W. corner of the latter thoroughfare is the Home Street Presbyterian Church. April 26, 1938. P. L. Sperr.
Home Street Presbyterian Church
Bronx: Home Street - West Farms Road Home Street, at the N.W. corner of West Farms Road, showing the Home Street Presbyterian Church. April 26, 1938. P. L. Sperr.
Hunt Inn
Corner of Bryant Avenue and Home Street
30+ frames: street level views of 3-story attached homes; ribbon-cutting; choir with children in school uniforms.
Corner of Bryant Avenue and Home Street
30+ frames: street level views of 3-story attached homes; ribbon-cutting; choir with children in school uniforms.
Foxhurst Mansion
Bronx: West Farms Road - East 167th Street. West Farms Road, at the south-east corner of East 167th Street, showing the Foxhurst Mansion, also known as the Tiffany House. Ht was built by Mr. William W. Fox in 1848 on his extensive estate. Apartment buildings were later erected on the site. View 1: Gift of Randall Comfort 1898 View 2: E. P. Chrystie June 1, .2
Foxhurst Mansion
Bronx: West Farms Road - East 167th Street. West Farms Road, at the south-east corner of East 167th Street, showing the Foxhurst Mansion, also known as the Tiffany House. Ht was built by Mr. William W. Fox in 1848 on his extensive estate. Apartment buildings were later erected on the site. View 1: Gift of Randall Comfort 1898 View 2: E. P. Chrystie June 1, .2
Public School 6
Bronx 54, P.S. 6 (The West Farms), 960 Vyse Ave; Jerry Spearman, Photographer
St. John Chrysostom's School
Hoe Avenue and 167th Street. Parochial School.
985 East 167th Street
Bronx: Hoe Avenue - 167th Street Hoe Ave, n.e. (north east) cor (corner) & 167th st P.L. Sperr 9-5-1942 Neg. A-432
Vyse Mansion
Elder Avenue Station, IRT Pelham Line
\[Elder Avenue Station: IRT Pelham Line] Photograph of the north end of the east platform of the Elder Avenue Station on the IRT Pelham Line the year that it opened to the public. Camera is facing south.
Elder Avenue Station, IRT Pelham Line
\[Elder Avenue Station Southbound Platform: IRT Pelham Line] Photograph facing north at the north end of the southbound platform at the Elder Avenue Station showing existing wooden platform and new concrete extension as part of a contract (number XY) to install concrete station platforms along the IRT Pelham Bay Line in the Bronx.
St. John Chrysostom's Church
Fire victims' funeral Crowd observing procession of four coffins being carried up steps into church. Caption: "Fire victims' funeral: Four white caskets are carried down \[i.e. up] steps of St. John Chrysostom Church, 985 E. 167th St., Manhattan. They bear remains of Mrs. Anna Rodriguez and her three children....They are four of the seven women and children burned to death in firetrap tenement at 1101 Bedford Ave. last Wednesday."
1053 Faile Street
17 frames: street level views of abandoned 3- and 4-story building on Faile Street.
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