380 West 245th Street

Riverdale | built 1953

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.

1953
Louis Kurtz designs a house for Curt Rahmsdorf
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Curt Rahmsdorf had a house built here around 1953 to plans by architect Louis Kurtz; the Landmarks Preservation Commission cites the Real Estate Record & Guide of April 18, 1953. It came after the Fieldston Property Owners Association had relaxed the rules that favored traditional designs. The house sits on a sloping lot with rock outcroppings and looks over the public steps that continue West 245th Street.
“…originally designed by architect Louis Kurtz and built c.1953 for owner Curt Rahmsdorf…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1988
The 1953 house is enlarged and completely redesigned
Around 1988 the house Louis Kurtz had designed for Curt Rahmsdorf was greatly expanded and completely redesigned. Today it is two stories over a raised basement, with pigmented stucco walls, intersecting gables and a masonry terrace with an open wood roof on square columns. The Landmarks Preservation Commission assigns it no historic style.
“Around 1988, the house was enlarged and completely redesigned…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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