4543 Delafield Avenue
Riverdale | built 1926
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1925
Julius Gregory designs a half-timbered Tudor Revival house for Rose A. Sealy
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Rose A. Sealy was the original owner of this house, put up in 1925-26 to plans by the architect Julius Gregory. It stands two and a half stories on a fieldstone foundation, its frame covered in tinted stucco with false half-timbering and fieldstone accents. A slate roof of hips and gables with shed dormers and a brick chimney of grouped stacks tops the house.
- 1934
Boiler-company president George A. Sealy makes the house his home into the 1930s
George A. Sealy, president of a boiler firm bearing his name, made his home in this Julius Gregory house until at least 1934, according to the Landmarks Preservation Commission. The house had been built in 1925-26 with Rose A. Sealy recorded as its original owner.
“George A. Sealy, president of the George A. Sealy Boiler Company, lived in the house until at least 1934…”
- 2005
New ashlar flagstone walk, front steps and retaining wall are installed at the Sealy house
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In 2005 the house received a new walkway paved with ashlar flagstones, along with new front steps and a new retaining wall along the front. The Landmarks Preservation Commission also noted that the historic main entrance door had been removed. Even so, it judged the 1920s Tudor Revival house largely intact when it designated the Fieldston Historic District.
“…the installation of a new walkway with ashlar flagstones, and of new front steps and a new front retaining wall, occurred in 2005.”
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