"West 230th Street, adjoining the N. W. corner of Broadway, showing the Macomb Mansion. In 1693 the house was known as "the public house at the north end of the bridge", and in 1776 as Cox's Tavern. Alexander Macomb bought the house in 1779. In the foreground is Spuyten Duyvil Creek. Also shown (right) is the elevated structure of the I.R.T. Van Cortlandt Park subway line, on Broadway." The Macomb Mansion was a sprawling house that included a section originally built in 1693. A residence, a watering hole, and once witness to nearby Revolutionary War action, the structure survived into the 20th century. When the nearby elevated trains of the I.R.T were constructed in 1907 the right of way very nearly touched the home. The house was demolished in 1919.

St. Stephen’s United Methodist Church, built in 1897, is at the base of Marble Hill.

St. Stephen's United Methodist Church, 1932. A Methodist congregation, known as Mosholu Methodists was established in the Bronx in 1825. In 1835 the congregation was incorporated as The Methodist Episcopal Church Bethel and their first church building was located at 251st Street and Old Albany Post Road. After a name change (to St. Stephen's) and a move, the parish would build its current home in 1897. The Victorian church building might be one of the most quaint church buildings in the city with its oak-frame structure, weathered shingles, fieldstone base, and small tower. Despite the many drastic changes to the neighborhood-- not least of which is the fact that Marble Hill, once geographically attached to Manhattan, is now firmly on the mainland of the Bronx-- St. Stephen's remains. After a thorough restoration, the church was rededicated in 2010.

Kingsbridge Ave., at the S.W. corner of West 231st Street, showing the Church of the Mediator, October, 1927. Organized as a the Protestant Episcopal society in 1855, the first church building belonging to the The Church of the Mediator was a wood-frame structure consecrated in 1864. The current building was designed in the neo-Gothic style by Henry Vaughan, who designed the original portion of the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. The church photographed here was consecrated in 1927. The church is also the guardian of the Corlear Sycamore, a massive tree on Corlear Avenue just south of West 231st Street that is considered the "oldest living thing in Kingsbridge."

Kingsbridge Branch, data unknown. Designed by McKim, Mead & White and completed in 1905, the small neo-Federal Kingsbridge Branch was one of the smallest Carnegie's constructed in the city. It is only 3,700 square feet. The building, which it set far back from the sidewalk, is surrounded by a generous lawn. The library was decommissioned in 1958 when a new larger branch was built on West 231st Street. Today the structure functions as a pre-school.

The vernacular brick housing stock seen in this photograph is common of residential neighborhoods in the outer boroughs, largely developed in the pre-war period. The infrastructure work being done on the street here is being performed by workers of the Works Progress Administration. During the New Deal programs of the Great Depression, workers repaired street paving, and curbs and constructed parks, bridges, airports, and roads.

In the foreground of this 1906 photograph is Spuyten Duyvil Creek. The creek originally flowed around and to the north of the neighborhood known as Marble Hill. A narrow, somewhat meandering, but fast-flowing waterway, it was traversed by a few small bridges (such as the one seen here). The differences between high and low tide on this creek were so drastic that when low, one could wade through the creek, but when the water was at high tide a small ferry was needed to cross. Because the strait was so shallow it was not an appropriate shipping lane. The Harlem Shipping Canal was dug from a section of the creek in 1895 and as such Marble Hill was a temporary island sitting between the shipping canal to the south and the remaining section of the creek to the north. In 1914 the remaining creek was filled in, using rocks from the excavation of Grand Central Terminal. Since 1914 Marble Hill has been geographically attached to the Bronx while politically it remains part of Manhattan.

On the neighborhood’s western edge, the eight-story John F. Kennedy High School building—now home to several smaller schools—similarly straddles the invisible Manhattan–Bronx dividing line.