Bitter House

4440 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.

1923
Sculptor Karl Bitter's widow has a Medieval Revival house built on Tibbett Avenue
W. Stanwood Phillips designed this house for Mrs. Karl Bitter, widow of the sculptor, and it went up in 1923-24 as Fieldston was filling with picturesque houses under the Fieldston Property Owners Association's design rules. It is a story and a half of wood frame under whitewashed cement stucco, with wall dormers and a big corbeled brick chimney. The Landmarks Preservation Commission later found it largely intact, though a garage door had become a side entrance.
“…built in 1923-24 for Mrs. Karl Bitter, widow of the late sculptor…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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