305 West 246th Street

also 4601 Waldo Avenue | Riverdale | built 1920

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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. 1920

    Dwight James Baum completes a stucco house for attorney Nash Rockwood

    Baum designed this two-story house at the corner of Waldo Avenue, finished in 1920 for Nash Rockwood. Rockwood was a lawyer whose firm, Rockwood & Lark, had its offices at 525 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. Among its sources on the house, the Commission's report cites a New York Times real estate column of June 28, 1919.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1921

    The Architectural League of New York shows the Rockwood house in its 1921 exhibition

    A year after it was finished, the house was put on view in the Architectural League of New York's exhibition of 1921. It blends two styles: the columned entrance portico and shuttered square windows are Colonial Revival, while the whitewashed stucco walls and chimneys and the clay-tile hipped roof lean toward the Mediterranean Revival. The Landmarks Preservation Commission found it substantially intact in its Fieldston report.

    “…was featured in the Architectural League of New York's 1921 exhibition…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 1931

    Owner Dr. James A. Cascaden brings Baum back for a $2,000 alteration

    In 1931 the house belonged to Dr. James A. Cascaden, who filed an alteration costing $2,000 with Dwight James Baum, the original architect, again in charge. Building records do not say what the work was, but the Commission thinks it may have added the low garage wing at the east end of the house. That wing has paneled garage doors in two openings under a lintel carried on curved brackets.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  4. 1935

    Attorney James B. Butler Jr. buys the former Rockwood house

    In 1935 the house passed to another lawyer, James B. Butler Jr. The Commission's report cites a New York Times item of March 29, 1935, headlined "West Bronx Home Sold." Like Nash Rockwood, for whom the house was built, Butler was a lawyer.

    “…was acquired in 1935 by another attorney, James B. Butler, Jr. ... “West Bronx Home Sold,” New York Times (March 29, 1935)…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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