Duncan L. Bulkley House

4525 Livingston Avenue | Riverdale | built 1930

Open on the map3 entries

The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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.

  1. 1919

    Architect Dwight James Baum designs a fieldstone Georgian Revival house for Dr. Duncan L. Bulkley

    Read more

    Filed as new-building permit 350 of 1919, this house at 4525 Livingston Avenue was built in 1919-20 for Dr. Duncan L. Bulkley to plans by Dwight James Baum. Its two-story main block has stone bearing walls faced in fieldstone, flanked by wood-frame side wings covered in shingles painted yellow, with slate gables and tall fieldstone end chimneys capped in copper.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1923

    February 14

    The American Architect publishes photographs of the Bulkley house

    Within a few years of its completion, Baum's Fieldston house for Duncan Bulkley appeared in the architectural press. The Landmarks Preservation Commission's designation report for the Fieldston Historic District lists historic photographs of it printed in The American Architect on February 14, 1923, and by the Architectural League in 1924.

    “Historic Photographs: The American Architect (Feb. 14, 1923). The Architectural League (1924).”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 1946

    Owner Jack Nadler has the house's original side porches enclosed

    In 1946-47, under alteration permit 792 of 1946, the original side porches of 4525 Livingston Avenue were closed in for owner Jack Nadler, with Albert Wheeler as engineer. The Landmarks Preservation Commission's report notes that the side wings have been altered but judges the house largely intact.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

Nearby

All 301 buildings with stories in Riverdale