Bogardus Place is located in the Inwood section of

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. The one-block street was opened in 1912, and runs between Hillside Avenue and Ellwood Street, and is named for the family who previously owned much of the land that forms both

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, and the Fort Tryon section. The Bogardus family in America started in 1633, when

Everardus Bogardus Everardus Bogardus (27 July 1607 – 27 September 1647) was the dominie of the New Netherlands, and was the second minister of the Dutch Reformed Church, the oldest established church in present-day New York, which was then located on Pearl ...

arrived in

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to become that community's second clergyman. Prominent members of that family included

James Bogardus James Bogardus (March 14, 1800 – April 13, 1874) was an American inventor and architect, the pioneer of American cast-iron architecture, for which he took out a patent in 1850. Early life Bogardus was born in the town of Catskill (town), New Yo ...

, who pioneered in the construction of cast-iron buildings during the 1840s.'

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