292 College Road

Riverdale | built 1924

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.

1924
Frank J. Forster designs a sprawling Medieval Revival house for Albert E. Wheeler
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Architect Frank J. Forster designed this residence for owner Albert E. Wheeler, and it was finished in 1924. Its walls mix rubble fieldstone, whitewashed stucco and false half-timbering, and the enclosed entrance porch has herringbone brick panels and a battened wood door. A big stepped fieldstone chimney rises from the front, and the garage wing still has its historic battened door with iron strap hinges.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1925
Advertising executive Edouard Ponchelet buys the house from Albert E. Wheeler
A year after the house was finished, Albert E. Wheeler sold it to Edouard Ponchelet, president of the advertising firm IFA Inc. The landmark report cites a New York Times item on the sale, "Buys Fieldston Dwelling," published April 9, 1925.
“In 1925, Wheeler sold the house to Edouard Ponchelet, who was the president of IFA Inc., an advertising firm.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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