4561 Fieldston Road

Riverdale | built 1929

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

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1929
Julius Gregory designs a Medieval Revival house for insurance officer Harry H. Schulte
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Architect Julius Gregory designed this house for Harry H. Schulte, assistant secretary of the Home Insurance Company, and it was finished in 1929. Its most distinctive features are a many-sided entrance tower faced in fieldstone, stucco walls under a slate gable roof, and a wooden oriel window on the ground floor of the front. It went up while the Fieldston Property Owners Association was holding new houses to strict design rules.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1933
Harry H. Schulte sells his Fieldston Road house to Dr. Waldo B. Farnum
Only four years after the house was completed for him, Harry H. Schulte, an officer of the Home Insurance Company, sold it in 1933 to Dr. Waldo B. Farnum. The Landmarks Preservation Commission recorded the sale in its report on the Fieldston Historic District, which judged the Julius Gregory design to be largely intact.
“Schulte was the assistant secretary of the Home Insurance Company; in 1933, he sold the house to Dr. Waldo B. Farnum…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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