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I can't locate the house yet... but the church is St Philip and St James, Woodstock Road, Oxford, designed by G.E. Street. So the houses must be somewhere around Banbury Road to the south-east of the church. Maybe Norham Gardens, Winchester Road, Bradmore Road. I've tried looking through these streets on google earth but can't find it yet.

Thank you Andy for helping us collect more information about this image!

Andy's comment already hit the mark, this is No. 54 Banbury Road, North Oxford, named "Laleham" at that time, seen from south east. Built in 1866 by John Gibbs. A front view of Laleham House is also available in this album. Provided both photographs were taken at the same occasion, this view could be supposed to be made between 1870 and 1872. This was the time when the family of literary scholar Thomas Arnold the Younger lived here. Mr. Arnold offered tutorials for Oxford Undergraduates and provided his pupils with accomodation in Laleham House. After his fateful decision to (re)convert to Catholicism in 1876, Mr. Arnold gave up tutoring and the house was sold to a group of evangelic clergymen, eventually becoming the main building of Wycliffe Hall, today the 5th Permanent Private Hall in the University of Oxford. In the 1880s, it was considerably extended with south & north wings (slightly different in style & brick color), thus, you won't have a view on St. Philip and St. James from here anymore. H. W. Taunt took a photograph from a similar viewpoint in 1903 which may be worth to compare. The next house in the background is No. 56, "Wykeham" where Queen Victoria's son Prince Leopold resided at that time during his undergraduate term at Christ Church. The next two gables are those of No. 58, "Norham House", and finally the last house in the background is No. 60, "Shrublands", also imaged in this album. Sources: - T. Hinchcliffe: North Oxford (Yale Univ. Press) - A. Saint: Three Oxford Architects (Oxoniensia) - Historic England Archive, Red Box Collection - English Wikipedia article "Wycliffe Hall" - M. Trevor - The Arnolds (C. Scribner's Sons)

This was replaced in the 1960s by 130 East 18th Street [http://www.flickr.com/photos/leesemel/3114256502/]

What a shame!

That is so sad :-(

The Stuyvesant was built in 1869 (Richard Morris Hunt) and was west of Third Avenue.

The current oldest apartment in New York is directly behind 130 East 18th Street, at 129 East 17th Street: www.nytimes.com/1990/07/08/realestate/streetscapes-129-ea...

Nos. 12-13 & 14-15 Parks Road, North Oxford, seen from north east. Built in 1868 and 1869, architect(s) unspecified, Semi-detached houses on the Keble Road Triangle, called "South/North Grove" (Nos. 12/13) and "East View" (Nos. 14/15). The two remaining of originally four Victorian buildings on this section of Parks Road. Though no informations are available about the architects, Nos. 12-13 can be attributed to Frederick Codd, whose designs at 2 Bevington Rd and 58 Woodstock Rd are identical in style and workmanship. Nos. 14-15 represent a semi type which is quite common in this area, similar buildings can be found near Museums Rd and on Blackhall Rd, and particularly on Winchester Road. No. 15 was later enlarged at the north side, with additional windows and a chimney, furthermore attaching an extension at the north west corner. Everything else looks today almost like on this photograph, just 150 years older. A blue plaque at No. 12 notes today that this was the home of Novelist Joyce Cary from 1920 until his death in 1957. In 1963, Oxford University's Department of Theoretical Physics, headed by Prof. Rudolf Peierls, moved into Nos. 12 to 14. At that time the Victorian houses were already surrounded by modern buildings of the developing Science Area. Today, both buildings are housing offices and laboratories of the Department of Materials. The houses - not occupied yet - look brand new on this photograph, as if the last brick was set moments ago, the site not completely being cleaned up, thus the date of the photograph should also be around 1869. Sources: - T. Hinchcliffe: North Oxford (Yale Univ. Press) - Town Plan of Oxfordshire XXXIII.15.7 (1876), National Library of Scotland - Internet Archive (archive.org)