370 West 245th Street

Riverdale | built 1922

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.

1922
New York University professor Laura B. Renshaw builds a house designed by W. Stanwood Phillips
Laura B. Renshaw, a professor at New York University, had this stucco house built in 1921-22 to designs by W. Stanwood Phillips. The commission's records give the original owners as R.R. and Laura B. Renshaw. Its plan is a series of intersecting wings and gables, an asymmetrical composition that the Landmarks Preservation Commission classed as Medieval Revival.
“…built in 1921-22 for owner Laura B. Renshaw, a New York University professor…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1931
Renshaw leases the house to Henry Allen Moe of the Guggenheim Foundation
In 1931 Laura B. Renshaw leased her house to Henry Allen Moe, then secretary of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. The Landmarks Preservation Commission's account of the lease cites The New York Times of March 13, 1931.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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