Apthorp farm extending north to 89th Street, was purchased in 1860 by the real estate magnate William B. Astor whose son, John Jacob Astor III, had married the Van den Heuvel's granddaughter, Charlotte Gibbes. The Van den Heuvel house, partly rebuilt after a fire but as "Burnham's" still occupying a full city lot between 78th and 79th Streets, west of Broadway to West End Avenue, was purchased by William Waldorf Astor, son of John Jacob Astor III and second great grandson to Charles Ward Apthorp Jr., in 1878. References Notes Further reading Stokes, I. N. Phelps, The Iconography of Manhattan Island 1498–1909, (v. 6) (New York : Robert H. Dodd, 1915–1928.) Cf. p. 95 on Charles Ward Apthorp, original grants and farms. External links History of New York City Upper West Side Houses in Manhattan Broadway (Manhattan)