4551 Livingston Avenue

Riverdale | built 1912

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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. 1911

    The Delafield Estate builds one of its first Fieldston houses at 4551 Livingston Avenue

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    Delafield Estate, Inc. put up this Craftsman house in 1911-12 to plans by the firm Mann & MacNeille. It was among the earliest houses the Delafields built in the neighborhood, with wide proportions, little ornament, a slate-covered hipped gable and a tapered chimney covered in stucco.

    “It was one of the first houses to be built in Fieldston by the Delafields.”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1914

    Cushman Bread Co. president Larimar A. Cushman leases the house from the Delafield Estate

    In 1914 the Delafield Estate rented 4551 Livingston Avenue to Larimar A. Cushman, who headed the Cushman Bread Co. The estate had built the house a few years earlier as one of its first in Fieldston.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 1929

    Julius Gregory alters the house for broker Archie Rhinehardt

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    In 1929 the architect Julius Gregory drew up alterations, which the record does not specify, for the house's owner at the time, Archie Rhinehardt, a broker. They were filed as ALT 374-1929.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  4. 1989

    Owner Frank Biondi adds a carport and a rear wing

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    In 1989 the house's owner, Frank Biondi, had it altered and enlarged, adding a carport and a wing at the back. The bluestone sidewalk also dates from that year. The Landmarks Preservation Commission still described the house as largely intact.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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