4628 Grosvenor Avenue

Riverdale | built 1922

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

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1921
Developer Kenneth Mackey & Co. builds a half-timbered house designed by Dwight James Baum
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Kenneth Mackey & Co. developed this house in 1921-22 under permit 2315-1921, with Dwight James Baum, a prolific Fieldston architect, as its designer. The stucco and half-timber house sits back from the street under an unusual slate roof of hips and gables at different planes, with a recessed porch between angled buttresses and a tall brick chimney rising from corbels.
“…designed by prolific Fieldston architect Dwight James Baum and built in 1921-22 by developer Kenneth Mackey & Co.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1924
A garage wing is added to the house
Around 1924, a couple of years after the house was finished, a garage wing was attached to it. The wing was enlarged around the 1950s and still has historic paneled wood garage doors, cross-braced and hung on hinges. The Landmarks Preservation Commission lists it among the house's major alterations.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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