4508 Livingston Avenue

also 371 West 245th Street | Riverdale | built 1916

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.

1915
Dwight James Baum designs a Tudor Revival house for the Parkway Heights Co.
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Architect Dwight James Baum designed this house, built in 1915-16 for the Parkway Heights Co. while the Delafield family was developing Fieldston with picturesque houses. Facing Livingston Avenue on a sloping lot with rock outcroppings that also fronts West 245th Street, it has a complicated footprint, slightly flared intersecting gables, tall stuccoed chimneys, half-timbering, and a conical tower on its east side.
“…built in 1915-16 for the Parkway Heights Co., at a time when the Fieldston neighborhood was being developed…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1922
Realty executive Clarke G. Dailey owns the house for at least 25 years
By 1922 the house belonged to Clarke G. Dailey, a vice president of the Alliance Realty Company. Dailey still owned it in 1947, according to the Landmarks Preservation Commission, which cites a New York Times article of September 12, 1922 among its references for the house.
“By 1922, the house was owned by Clarke G. Dailey, Vice President of the Alliance Realty Company, who owned it through at least 1947.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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