4614 Fieldston Road

Riverdale | built 1925

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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. 1925

    Dwight James Baum completes a Colonial Revival house for Mrs. J. Wilbur Chapman

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    Plans for this house were filed in 1924, and Dwight James Baum's design for Mrs. J. Wilbur Chapman was finished in 1925. Its walls are stone coated in stucco, with a clapboarded east wing, and the front door sits under a leaded fanlight framed by engaged columns and an angular pediment. Shuttered double-hung windows and a slate gable roof complete the Colonial Revival look; an attic dormer by architect Simon B. Zelnik was added in 1961.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1961

    CBS News executive Fred W. Friendly owns the house for decades

    Fred W. Friendly, the CBS News executive who worked with Edward R. Murrow, owned this house for many decades and held it when it was altered in 1961. With Murrow he made the 1954 See It Now broadcast that badly damaged Senator Joseph McCarthy's credibility, and Harvest of Shame (1960), which exposed how migrant farm workers in the United States were exploited.

    “It was owned for many decades by Fred W. Friendly, the prominent CBS News executive who collaborated with the legendary journalist Edward R. Murrow…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 1998

    Fred W. Friendly dies at his Fieldston Road home

    Fred W. Friendly, the television news pioneer who had long owned 4614 Fieldston Road, died in the house in 1998. The New York Times ran his obituary on March 5, 1998, under a headline calling him a CBS executive and a pioneer in TV news coverage who died at 82.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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