4520 Livingston Avenue

Riverdale | built 1918

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

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1916
Clarence W. Brazer designs a mock-thatch Tudor Revival house for the Delafield Estate
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Delafield Estate, Inc. built this house in 1916-18 to designs by Clarence W. Brazer. Set on a steep, terraced lot, it has a fieldstone first story, a whitewashed stucco and half-timbered upper floor, and an asphalt roof shaped to imitate thatch, with intersecting gables, sweeping slopes, and eyebrow dormers, plus tall fieldstone chimneys.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1916
Architect Clarence W. Brazer, later a stamp journal editor, designs the house
Clarence W. Brazer, a Philadelphia-born Drexel graduate, had worked in Cass Gilbert's New York office and designed the Capitol in San Juan, Puerto Rico. During World War I he planned Westinghouse Village in Essington, Pennsylvania, for 7,000 company workers. After retiring from architecture in 1947 he edited The Essay and Proof Journal, a magazine for stamp collectors. In Fieldston he designed this Tudor Revival house in the area's early years.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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