4503 Fieldston Road

Riverdale | built 1928

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.

1928
Real estate officer Otto Kindler becomes the first owner of a Leo Fernschild Tudor house
Leo J. Fernschild designed this Tudor Revival house, begun in 1927 and completed in 1928, for Otto Kindler. Kindler served as secretary and treasurer of Henry F.A. Wolf's real estate firm, whose office stood at 549 East 138th Street in the Bronx, and Wolf had his own home close by, at 4575 Fieldston Road.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1958
Industrialist Dr. Meno Lissauer, a 1950s resident of the house, dies
During the 1950s the house was the home of Dr. Meno Lissauer, who chaired the Associated Metals and Minerals Corporation. The landmarks report's source for his time here is his New York Times obituary, "Dr. Meno Lissauer, Industrialist, Dead," published on May 28, 1958.
“In the 1950s, Dr. Meno Lissauer, chairman of the Associated Metals and Minerals Corporation, lived in the house.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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