Horace Mann School Kindergarten Cottage II

4430 Tibbett Avenue | also 4401 Cayuga Avenue | Riverdale | built 1943

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.

1926
James Monroe High School teacher George C. Wood builds a Medieval Revival house
George C. Wood, a teacher at James Monroe High School, was the original owner of this house, built in 1926-27 to designs by W. Stanwood Phillips under the Fieldston Property Owners Association's design rules. It has whitewashed stucco walls over a fieldstone foundation, intersecting hipped and gabled roofs, a brick chimney with clay pots and a curved-base oriel on the north side.
“Wood was a teacher at James Monroe High School.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2006
A window at the Wood house has become a fire exit with outside stairs
By the time Fieldston was designated a historic district in 2006, a second-story window on the north side of this house had been turned into an emergency exit, with wrought-iron escape stairs added outside. It was the only major alteration the commission listed.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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