Albert E. Wheeler House

4455 Tibbett Avenue | Riverdale | built 1912

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.

1911
Albert E. Wheeler starts the first house in the new Fieldston development
The Delafield heirs sold Fieldston's first lots in 1910, and work on the first house began in 1911: this one, built by Albert E. Wheeler for his own family. Growth was slow and selective. Eighteen houses stood by 1913-14 and 80 by 1922, even though more than 1,600 applications to buy land had come in.
“Wheeler himself built the first house for his family, at 4455 Tibbett Avenue.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1959
Albert E. Wheeler, the engineer who laid out Fieldston, lives here until his death
Albert E. Wheeler, the engineer who laid out Fieldston for the Delafield family, lived in this Craftsman house, built for him in 1911-12 to a design by Nathaniel Vickers, until he died in 1959. In 1922-23 he added a garage designed by George Fulton. His family kept and lived in the house until 1974.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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