Wheeler house

4530 Fieldston Road | Riverdale | built 1910

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

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1928
Julius Gregory, second only to Dwight James Baum in Fieldston houses, designs the Wheeler house
California-born Julius Gregory (1875-1955) specialized in houses, serving as architectural consultant to House and Gardens and House Beautiful, and in 1929 his design for a suburban house won the prize of the National Better Homes Architectural Competition. In Fieldston he built the "Model American Home" in 1926 for the State Federation of Women's Clubs, and only Dwight James Baum designed more houses in the neighborhood. The Wheeler house, begun in 1928, is one of them.
“After Dwight Baum, Julius Gregory designed the most houses in Fieldston.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1930
Julius Gregory perches a stone and brick house on a rock outcrop for Dr. John M. Wheeler
Dr. John M. Wheeler, a Manhattan physician, commissioned this Medieval Revival house, built in 1928-30 to designs by Julius Gregory. It stands high above Fieldston Road on a large outcropping of rock, its walls faced in fieldstone and brick beneath slate-covered gables and massive stone chimneys and set on a steep lot with fieldstone retaining walls and steps.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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