Frederick O. Zenke House
4550 Livingston Avenue | Riverdale | built 1916
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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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- 1916
Cotton goods merchant Frederick O. Zenke builds a Dwight James Baum house in Fieldston
Frederick O. Zenke, president and treasurer of the cotton goods merchants Mole & Zenke, Inc. on Leonard Street in Manhattan, had this Medieval Revival house built in 1916 to a design by Dwight James Baum. It has a T-shaped plan, slate-covered intersecting gables, a curved two-story entrance portico with a conical roof, and stone and stucco chimneys.
- 1989
Owners E. and R. Varet add a stone terrace behind a high wood fence
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In 1989 a stone terrace surrounded by a tall wood fence was built at 4550 Livingston Avenue for owners E. & R. Varet. The architects were Byrns, Kendall & Schieferdecker, and the work was filed as permit BN 229-1989.
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