Bronx: Kingsbridge Road (We - Reservoir Avenue

1911; 1928; 1935

Bronx: Kingsbridge Road (We - Reservoir Avenue

(1) 71 W. Kingsbridge Road, north side, at the N. W. corner of Reservoir Avenue, showing the Fordham Dutch Reformed Church. The edifice was built in 1848 and is the congregation's third. Virginia, wife of Edgar Allen Poe, lies buried here. The church is going to be razed early in 1940 to br replaced by a new structure. For additional data see Jenkins's Story of the Bronx, p. 275, also the "New York Times," February 16, 1940. 1911 Gift of Randall Comfort (2) The same, at a later date, viewing westward. May 8, 1928 P. L. Sperr (3) An additional view at a still later date. October, 1935 R. W. Hill

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection