4521 Delafield Avenue

Riverdale | built 1925

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

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1925
Dwight James Baum designs a Colonial Revival house with a Doric portico for Dr. Francis Collins
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Dr. Francis Collins was the first owner of this house, designed by Dwight James Baum and built in 1925 in the Colonial Revival style with neo-Classical and Georgian details. The clapboarded house has a portico with fluted Doric columns and a classical entablature. Collins, who lived here until at least 1934, brought Baum back in 1930 to design the rear wing.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1932
The American Institute of Architects gives Baum's design for the house its Gold Medal
In 1932 the American Institute of Architects awarded Dwight James Baum its Gold Medal for this house, judging it the finest two-story American house completed from 1926 through 1930. Baum was Fieldston's most prolific architect and was once estimated to have designed or remodeled a third of the neighborhood's houses.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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