Bronx: Washington Avenue - 189th Street (East)

Washington Ave., east side, between East 189th Street and East Road, showing the Powel Farm House, considered to be the oldest ho in Fordham. Randall Comfort designates the location as East Fordh Road and Washington Ave., which corresponds with the location give Kelley's Historical Guide to New York. The above location is with William Powel estate according to E. Robinson's map of 1885. Howe the Newell S. Brown map of Westchester County of 1851 shows a Powe house at what is now (1937) the N.E. corner of Lorillard Place and Ave. (4434-4436 Third Ave). The site of the Powel House is now oc
by the Theodore Roosevelt High School.
1905.
Gift of Randall Comfort.