376 West 245th Street

Riverdale | built 1913

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.

1913
Parkway Heights Co. builds a Craftsman house designed by Mann & MacNeille
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This fieldstone and stucco house went up in 1913 for the Parkway Heights Co., while Fieldston was being developed, to designs by the firm of Mann & MacNeille. The Landmarks Preservation Commission classed it as Craftsman. Its features include broad hipped roofs, exposed rafters, a tall fieldstone chimney and a picturesque stair leading up to the front door.
“…designed by the architectural firm Mann & MacNeille and built in 1913 for the Parkway Heights Co.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1919
Accountant Russell E. Briggs has the original architects design a large addition
By 1919 the house belonged to Russell E. Briggs, an accountant. That year he brought back Mann & MacNeille, the firm that had designed it, to plan a substantial addition, filed with the Bronx Department of Buildings as alteration application No. 370 of 1919.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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