4527 Delafield Avenue

Riverdale | built 1928

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

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1928
Otto L. Spannhake designs a Flemish-bond brick Federal Revival house for Edmund J. Meade
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Edmund J. Meade was the first owner of this Federal Revival house, completed in 1928 to designs by Otto L. Spannhake under a new-building application filed in 1927. It rises two and a half stories on a fieldstone foundation, with brick facades laid in Flemish bond and a one-story wing on the south side. A gravel driveway is shared with the neighboring house at No. 4521.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1933
Owner Edmund J. Meade rises from police lieutenant to NYPD department inspector
Edmund J. Meade, for whom this brick house was built, spent many years with the New York City Police Department. He held the rank of lieutenant in 1925 and had climbed to department inspector by 1933, a few years after the house was finished.
“Meade was associated with the New York City Police Department for many years, rising in rank from lieutenant in 1925 to department inspector by 1933.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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