Horsepower-operated device moving a house (out of frame) to a new location, possibly on Holland Avenue, May 25, 1928. No. 3530 Holland Avenue is the building at left. The large apartment building at right is No. 3514 Holland Avenue.

Capuchin Friars Monastery, 1938. Since 1920, the Church of the Immaculate Conception has been associated with the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, a Catholic order related to the Franciscan Friars. This view shows the Friars’ residence, at the rear of the church. The land in the foreground is today occupied by the NYCHA Gun Hill Houses (completed in 1950).

Church of the Immaculate Conception, May 24, 1928. Around the turn of the century, the Church of the Immaculate Conception (unrelated to other parishes of the same name) was established in a storefront on White Plains Road. The first church was a wooden structure on the north side of Briggs Avenue ( Gun Hill Road), completed in 1905. When that church was destroyed in a 1923 fire, parish officials elected to build a new structure, across Gun Hill Road east of Holland Avenue. The new, neo-Romanesque church designed by Joseph Ziccardi was completed in 1925.

Evander Childs High School, May 11, 1938. Evander Childs, a lifelong New Yorker and graduate of City College, was a teacher and administrator in city schools for over fifty years. Childs died in post, in 1912: stricken, “he fell forward with a cry and struck heavily on his desk” in the principal’s office of P.S. 10 in Morrisania. In 1930, the Department of Education named its new, 4,700 student Williamsbridge high school for Childs. The massive Italian Renaissance campus was part of a flurry of school construction in the late 1920s. In 2008, the high school closed after years of poor performance, and was split into six specialized schools located in the Childs campus.

Third Avenue El tracks over Gun Hill Road, viewed from the Gun Hill Road station of the IRT White Plains Road line, June 1, 1928. The view is westward, across the Bronx River to Webster Avenue, where the Third Avenue El turns southward to Manhattan. This spur carried connecting trains between 1920 and 1973.

A ca. 1910 wood-frame house being moved to a new location, May 25, 1928. This house was originally located at 727-729 East Gun Hill Road, down the hill from the location pictured, where it was erected some time after 1905. This photo captures the house in transit, on East 211th Street west of Holland Avenue (the brick building in the background, at left is No. 3530 Holland Avenue). Photographer P.L. Sperr failed to note the house’s ultimate destination. However, Nos. 3561-3563 Holland Avenue match the building’s footprint and street-facing windows, though bays and cornice work have been removed.

Rock outcrop on Magenta Street, east of White Plains Road, June 16, 1938. The land to the left would be set aside for the New York City Housing Authority’s Gun Hill Houses, a six-building development which opened in 1950. The rock formation is still visible on Magenta Street.

Intersection of Gun Hill Road and Bronxwood Avenue, ca. 1917. This view is westward along Gun Hill Road. The vacant lot at left would become the site of the Evander Childs High School, completed in 1930. Gun Hill Road station of the IRT White Plains Road Line (today’s 2/5 trains) is visible in the distance, over Gun Hill Road. This station opened in March, 1917. A further elevated structure is visible in the background. This may be the Gun Hill Road spur of the IRT Third Avenue line, under construction; this segment opened to traffic in October, 1920.