Hartmann House
(c.1890) 1 - 6 Hollywood Avenue
Andrew P. Hartmann, City Engineer for the City of
Yonkers built this Queen Anne Style home at 6 Hollywood Avenue circa
1890. Hartmann was one of several engineers involved in planning the
layout of the Crestwood community.2
A large water tower was set in the rear of the house
and is believed to have supplied water for nearby homes. A stream
running down a hill in back of Asbury
Church provided water for wells opposite the
church, which was then pumped up to Lincoln Circle and into the
tower. 
When noted Bronx Realtor Frederick Nehring purchased
the house in 1923 (which at that time was still lighted by gas
lamps) he had the tower taken down. An old-timer remembers his
grandfather telling him that he saw the foundation of the wells and
well-house when the Bronx River Parkway was being built.
A real estate brochure
from around this time shows a Victorian Gazebo-Style pump house like
the one that probably supplied the tower with water. It sat
approximately at what is now the intersection of Scarsdale Road and
Underhill Road– opposite the Asbury Church.
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1. Researched and
written by Marguerite Aumann
2.The present Hartmann
Place was originally Hollywood Place but was renamed in honor of the
Hartmann family | 
