331 College Road

Riverdale | built 1917

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.

1917
Dwight James Baum designs a saltbox-roofed Colonial Revival house for James P. Quinn
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Architect Dwight James Baum designed this two-and-a-half-story frame house, filed under building permit NB 70-1917 and finished that year for its first owner, James P. Quinn. It mixes board-and-batten siding on the ground floor with clapboards above, has louvered shutters and a big brick chimney, and its front roof sweeps down asymmetrically in a saltbox profile. A round-arched wooden hood on scrolled brackets shelters the front door.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1950
Dr. Walter Root owns the Baum-designed house in the 1950s, after W.B. England
According to the Landmarks Preservation Commission's Fieldston report, W.B. England owned the house during the 1940s, and Dr. Walter Root held it in the 1950s, both following first owner James P. Quinn. The report describes the Colonial Revival house as substantially intact.
“Later owners of the house included W.B. England in the 1940s, and Dr. Walter Root in the 1950s.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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