4651 Fieldston Road

Riverdale | built 1918

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.

1918
The Delafield Estate builds a Dutch Colonial Revival house designed by Dwight James Baum
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Delafield Estate, Inc. built this house in 1917-18, while members of the Delafield family were developing Fieldston, to designs by Dwight James Baum. Its Dutch Colonial Revival features include a base of cut fieldstone, brick lintels splayed over the windows, an elaborate entrance with leaded-glass sidelights and fanlight, a gambrel roof with flared eaves and a fieldstone chimney at each end.
“…built in 1917-18 for Delafield Estate, Inc. at a time when the Fieldston neighborhood was being developed…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1922
Wire company executive Benjamin L. Winchell owns the house and builds one next door for his daughter
By 1922 the house belonged to Benjamin L. Winchell, a vice-president at the Kerite Insulated Wire & Cloth Company. That year it was published in the Architectural League Yearbook, and Winchell also developed a house on the neighboring lot, 4655 Fieldston Road, for his daughter.
“By 1922, the year this house was published in the Architectural League Yearbook, it was owned by Benjamin L. Winchell…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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