335 West 246th Street

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. 1913

    George H. Chichester designs a house for Mrs. Charles E. Niles

    Completed in 1913 for Mrs. Charles E. Niles, this house dates from Fieldston's earliest years; a garage by the same architect went up the same year. Charles E. Niles was financial secretary of the machine-tool and crane maker Niles-Bement-Pond Co. and president of Niles & Niles Accountants. Both firms had offices at 111 Broadway in Manhattan.

    “Charles E. Niles was the financial secretary of Niles-Bement Pond Co. (machine tools and cranes) and president of Niles & Niles Accountants…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1913

    The Niles house becomes one of Fieldston's examples of the Craftsman style

    The Commission's Fieldston report points to this 1913 house as an example of the Craftsman style that grew out of Gustav Stickley's Craftsman Magazine. Rough stone covers the basement and first floor, with stucco on the upper stories, and the house has grouped windows and exposed rafter ends. Wide overhanging eaves run across the front and over both side wings, and a porch shelters the main door.

    “One example of a Craftsman style house can be found at No. 335 West 246th Street (1913, George Chichester)…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 1923

    Five-and-dime chain owner J.G. McCrory buys the Niles house

    The Niles family sold the house in 1923 to J.G. McCrory, president of McCrory Stores Corp., and The New York Times reported the purchase on October 26. McCrory's five-and-dime stores were once as familiar in American towns as Woolworth's. The chain had started as one store in Scottdale, Pennsylvania, in 1882, and by McCrory's death in 1943 it ran 197 stores across the Northeast, Midwest and Mid-Atlantic.

    “The Nileses sold the house to J.G. McCrory, president of McCrory Stores Corp., in 1923…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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