458 West 246th Street

Riverdale | built 1917

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

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1917
Dwight James Baum designs a clubhouse for the developer Delafield Estates
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This building began around 1917 as a clubhouse, not a home. Dwight James Baum designed it for the developer Delafield Estates, Inc. About two decades later the same architect planned its conversion into a house.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1938
The Fieldston clubhouse is cut down in size and turned into a house
In 1938-39 Delafield Estates had the old clubhouse made smaller and converted into a dwelling, following plans by Dwight James Baum, its original architect. The result is a one-and-a-half-story Colonial Revival house with clapboard walls, three gabled wall dormers on each side of the roof, a tapered fieldstone chimney and an iron entrance portico decorated with anthemion and Greek-key patterns.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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