4421 Fieldston Road

also 4427 Manhattan College Parkway | Riverdale | built 1925

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.

1924
Dwight James Baum designs a Mediterranean Revival house for James J. Gallagher
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Built in 1924-25 under permit NB 2492-1924, this two-story house with a one-story garage wing to the north was designed by Dwight James Baum for James J. Gallagher. It is a wood frame covered in whitewashed cement stucco; its other address is 4427-4429 Manhattan College Parkway.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1958
School-building chief Charles Joseph Bensley owns the house
James J. Gallagher lived here until about 1932. By 1958 the house belonged to Charles Joseph Bensley, then chairman of the Board of Education's Committee on Buildings and Sites and in charge of building new schools. The commission's report cites a New York Times article about him from November 1958, titled "Builder of Schools."
“By 1958, it was owned by Charles Joseph Bensley, who was responsible, at the time, for new school construction as the chairman of the Board of Education Committee on Buildings and Sites.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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