4538 Greystone Avenue

also 340 West 246th Street | Riverdale | built 1924

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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. 1924

    June 5

    Lillian Hunter, an officer of an architecture firm, buys this lot from the Delafield Estate

    Lillian Hunter, who served as vice-president of R.C. Hunter Co., Inc., an architecture firm, acquired this lot from the Delafield Estate by a deed dated June 5, 1924. The Delafields were then selling off parcels of their old estate for country houses. The house that stands here was possibly built for her around 1924, perhaps to her own firm's design.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1924

    A turreted Medieval Revival house rises with a sagging slate roof and a matching garage

    The Landmarks Preservation Commission called this whitewashed stucco house one of the most picturesque in Fieldston. A central tower holds the round-arched front door, and the steep slate roofs were built with intentional sags. A curving masonry garden wall with an arched, stone-framed doorway ties the house to a matching garage, and the steep slope behind is held by a high fieldstone wall with arched coves.

    “…one of the most picturesque designs in Fieldston, was built c.1924…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 1927

    Hunter sells the house to Gladys Kannard, her firm's secretary and treasurer

    Sometime between 1927 and 1929, Lillian Hunter sold the house to Gladys Kannard. Kannard was also tied to R.C. Hunter Co., where she served as secretary and treasurer, so the property passed from one officer of the firm to another.

    “Between 1927 and 1929, Hunter sold the house to Gladys Kannard, who was also associated with R.C. Hunter as its secretary and treasurer.”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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