Fitzgerald/Ginsberg Mansion

145-15 Bayside Avenue | Murray Hill | built 1924

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

  1. 1924

    John Oakman designs a fieldstone Tudor Revival mansion for Charles and Florence Fitzgerald

    Charles and Florence Fitzgerald, formerly of Malba Drive, bought a 100-by-200-foot plot beside the Old Country Club's golf course and hired architect John Oakman. Though their deed allowed two houses, they built just one, originally No. 290 Bayside Avenue. Finished in 1924, it has irregular fieldstone walls, a multicolored slate roof, tall chimneys and leaded diamond-pane windows, approached by a curving drive.

    “Despite the covenant's permission for the construction of two houses, the Fitzgeralds built only one house on the property, which became No. 290 Bayside Avenue…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1926

    Morris and Ethel Ginsberg buy the mansion, beginning seven decades of family ownership

    The Fitzgeralds sold the house in 1926 to Morris and Ethel Ginsberg, and the New York Times called it one of the finest residences in Flushing. Morris ran the business side of D. Ginsberg and Sons, a Corona maker of sash, doors and trim headed by his father, Hyman, and was a vice president of the Woodside National Bank. The family stayed more than seventy years and changed little outside.

    “In 1926, the Fitzgeralds sold the house to Morris and Ethel Ginsberg.”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 2005

    September 20

    The city designates the Fitzgerald/Ginsberg Mansion a landmark, with the longtime owners' son in support

    At the Landmarks Preservation Commission hearing on April 21, 2005, seven speakers supported designation, among them William Ginsberg, son of the house's longest-term owners, joined by the Historic Districts Council, the Municipal Art Society and a representative of Councilman John Liu. The commission designated the house that September, calling it one of the last great 1920s mansions still standing in Flushing.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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