4495 Fieldston Road

Riverdale | built 1930

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.

1930
Walter L. Uhl designs a gable-fronted Tudor Revival house for attorney Forrest Hirleman
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Walter L. Uhl drew this brick house over a fieldstone foundation for attorney Forrest C. Hirleman; plans were filed in 1929 and the work was completed in 1930. Behind its false half-timbering, the landmarks report notes details uncommon in the Tudor Revival, such as eyebrow dormers on three roof slopes and wood lintels with toad-back moldings, along with a three-sided oriel under a copper roof.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1933
After Forrest Hirleman's death, Dr. Sidney and Lillian Friedman buy the house
After the death of attorney Forrest C. Hirleman, for whom the house had been built, it was sold in 1933 to Dr. Sidney T. Friedman and Lillian M. Friedman. The commission's report takes the sale from a New York Times real estate column, "Deals in the Bronx," printed on October 21, 1933.
“In 1933, the house was sold to Dr. Sidney T. Friedman and Lillian M. Friedman following the death of its first owner, attorney Forrest C. Hirleman.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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