4425 Tibbett Avenue

Riverdale | built 1925

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1924
Garage owner Angelo M. Stephany builds a stone house designed by Herman A. Kaplan
Angelo M. Stephany, proprietor of a Bronx business, the F. & S. Garage on La Fontaine Avenue, had this Medieval Revival house built in 1924-25. His architect was Herman A. Kaplan. It has fieldstone bearing walls, a slate roof of intersecting gables and a gabled, arched entrance portico.
“Stephany owned the F. & S. Garage on La Fontaine Avenue in the Bronx.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2006
Landmarks report lists 4425 Tibbett among Fieldston's smaller Medieval Revival houses
In its 2006 account of Fieldston's architecture, the Landmarks Preservation Commission named this house among the neighborhood's smaller Medieval Revival examples. It cited the stone facing, the small-paned windows set deep in the walls and the steep slate roof broken by many gables. The report called Tudor Revival and Medieval Revival houses very popular across the district.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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