Villa Margherita

4401 Manhattan College Parkway | also 4401 Manhattan College Py | Riverdale | built 1931

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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. 1931

    Dwight James Baum completes a Mediterranean Revival house for Andrea Ognibene

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    Filed under new-building permit NB 746-1930, this two-story house on Manhattan College Parkway was designed by Dwight James Baum for Andrea Ognibene and finished in 1931. It is a wood frame dressed in whitewashed cement stucco over a fieldstone base, with clay-tile hipped roofs, multi-pane casements and a wrought-iron balcony at the second floor. The Landmarks Preservation Commission found it substantially intact despite newer window hoods and a metal canopy.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1934

    Andrea Ognibene, a contractor and interior decorator, lives in the house he commissioned

    The house's first owner, Andrea Ognibene, was still living here in 1934, according to the Landmarks Preservation Commission's research. City directories of the period listed him at different times as a contractor and as an interior decorator. He had commissioned the stucco house from architect Dwight James Baum a few years earlier.

    “The original owner, Andrea Ognibene, occupied the house until at least 1934, and was listed in city directories at various times as a contractor or interior decorator.”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 1944

    Owner Ralph Greco has massive fieldstone retaining walls built on the steep lot

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    In 1944-45 the owner, Ralph Greco, had heavy fieldstone retaining walls built on the steeply sloping, terraced lot, under alteration permit ALT 444-1944 with Paul Cerrina as architect. Today a wrought-iron arch spans the driveway on square fieldstone posts, bearing the name "Villa Margherita" in script.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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