300 West 246th Street

also 4535 Waldo Avenue | Riverdale | built 1961

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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. 1960

    Eugene J. Auffant designs a cantilevered modern house for Irving Broude

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    Irving Broude commissioned this two-story house, which went up in 1960-61 after the Fieldston Property Owners Association had loosened its rules favoring traditional styles. Set on a T-shaped base and partly dug into a rock outcrop on the north side of the lot, it has a cantilevered upper floor, clerestory windows and a shallow gable roof with broad bracketed eaves. Roman brick covers the first story and clapboard the second, and a carport on slender steel columns sits on the west side.

    “…designed by architect Eugene J. Auffant and built in 1960-61 for owner Irving Broude at a time after the Fieldston Property Owners Association relaxed…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1960

    The Broude house is the Fieldston work of Eugene J. Auffant, a sanitary engineer by training

    The house's designer, Eugene Joseph Auffant, was a New York City native who earned a degree in sanitary engineering from Louisiana State University in 1947. From 1947 to 1953 he worked as a design engineer for firms in Dillsburg and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, then joined Lawrence G. Rice in White Plains in 1953 as a senior design engineer. The Commission's report credits him with this Mid-Twentieth-Century Modern house of 1960-61 in Fieldston.

    “…received a B.S. degree in Sanitary Engineering from Louisiana State University in 1947 ... In Fieldston, Auffant designed a Mid-Twentieth-Century Modern style house in 1960-61…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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