4511 Delafield Avenue

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.

1923
Polhemus & Coffin design a gambrel-roofed Dutch Colonial house for Albert E. Wheeler
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Albert E. Wheeler was the original owner of this clapboarded Dutch Colonial Revival house, filed in 1923 and built in 1923-24 to plans by the firm of Polhemus & Coffin. Its gambrel roofs take in part of the second story, and twelve-over-twelve wood windows line the main facade.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1949
Albert E. Wheeler adds a two-story garage by the house's original architects
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Albert E. Wheeler later returned to Polhemus & Coffin for an addition. In 1949 a two-story wood-frame garage was built under permit NB 964-1949 and joined to the back of the house.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1999
Jonathan Barnhard raises the south wing of the 1920s Dutch Colonial house
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In 1999 owner Jonathan Barnhard had Torborg Architects add a second story to the house's south wing. When Fieldston became a historic district, the Landmarks Preservation Commission found that the house, with its gambrel roofs, fieldstone chimney and entrance porch with a concave roof, remained substantially intact despite the change.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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