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 Hartmann
House (c. 1890) - 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. When the house
was purchased by noted Bronx Realtor Frederick Nehring in 1923,
it was still lighted by gas lamps. Click on Photo
for details
 Fisher-Eforo House
(c.1892) - 50 Crestwood
Avenue
This classic Second Empire House of the Victorian
period, with its architectural roots in France, was built in 1892.
It is located in the very center of what was then Yonkers Park on
the corner of Crestwood Avenue and Vista Street – one of three
adjacent homes built that same year. Click on Photo
for details
Helling-Schultze
House (1892) - 36 Crestwood Avenue
This Second Empire Victorian is one of
three built in 1892 on Crestwood Ave. The others are 42 Crestwood
(not shown) and 50 Crestwood (shown above).
 353
Westchester Avenue (c.1890)
This farm house and corner lot are part
of the last remaining four acres of Edgar Reynold's estate. The
Italianate-styled estate house at 500 Scarsdale Road was torn down
in the 1960s to make room for new houses. A few towering fir trees
remain of that earlier time.
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Photo credits (this page): Photos
1, 2, 3 - Stephen Rubino; 4 - Marguerite Aumann; Historic research
(this page): Marguerite Aumann and Richard J.
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