Phelps house

4500 Fieldston Road | also 429 West 245th Street | Riverdale | built 1930

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

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1930
Bronx real estate broker Albert D. Phelps builds a house at Fieldston Road and West 245th Street
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George V. Martin designed this house, built in 1929-30 for Albert D. Phelps, a Bronx real estate broker with offices on East 149th Street. The main front faces Fieldston Road, while the south side, with a copper-roofed first-story oriel, overlooks West 245th Street.
“…built in 1929-30 for owner Albert D. Phelps ... Phelps was a Bronx real estate broker with offices on East 149th Street.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1930
A massive fieldstone chimney crowns the Phelps house's Medieval Revival gables
The wood-frame house is faced in stone and unpainted cement stucco over a fieldstone foundation. The landmarks report singles out its irregular massing, steep slate gables of several heights topped by a huge fieldstone chimney, an arched basement garage that keeps its historic batten door, and leaded-glass casement windows, and calls the house remarkably intact.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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