4601 Fieldston Road

also 441 West 246th Street | Riverdale | built 1928

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

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1928
Dwight James Baum finishes a Georgian Revival house for H.S. Lasalle at West 246th Street
H.S. Lasalle commissioned this corner house from Dwight James Baum, a prolific Fieldston architect, and it went up in 1927-28. A two-and-a-half-story block of Flemish-bond brick sits between lower wings, one faceted and one semicircular, with a curved columned entrance porch, a Palladian motif at the second story and round-arched windows with Gothic tracery. The Landmarks Preservation Commission counted it among Baum's major contributions to the Fieldston Historic District.
“The house, which is remarkably intact, is one of Baum's major contributions to the Field-ston Historic District.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1990
The house's original garage is enlarged and turned into a medical office
In 1990 the garage on the west side of the Lasalle house was expanded and converted for use as a medical office. A new one-story garage of wood frame and concrete, with a flat roof, was put up on the lot around the same time. The landmarks commission nonetheless described the main house as remarkably intact.
“Original garage on west side of building expanded and converted to medical office in 1990.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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