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5501 Broadway
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"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.
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Macomb Mansion
Bronx: 230th Street (West) - Kingsbridge Avenue West 230th Street, east from Kingsbridge Ave., to Broadway, showing the Macomb Mansion, adjoining the N.W. corner of the latter thoroughfare, 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 and it was sold in 1848 to J.H. Godwin, and is often referred to as the Godwin Mansion. Spuyten Duyvil Creek is shown in the foreground. It is now (1938) filled in and the Kingsbridge freight yard of the New York Central Railroad is situated there. 1906\. Brown Brothers.
Macomb Mansion
Macomb Mansion
Mansion at 230th Street and Broadway, Bronx, undated (1917).
Macomb Mansion
Northwest corner of Broadway and 230th St., Bronx, N.Y. Elevated 1 train tracks with large billboard at left.
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