4671 Fieldston Road

also 4901 Goodridge Avenue | Riverdale | built 1920

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.

1919
Dwight James Baum designs a Colonial Revival house that changes hands mid-construction
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Dwight James Baum, one of Fieldston's busiest architects, designed this Colonial Revival house, built in 1919-20. Mrs. F.W. Banfield started the project, but Mr. M.A. Shea bought it from her while it was still under construction. As first finished, the house had a broken pediment over its front door and splayed lintels above the ground-floor windows.
“…built in 1919-20 by Mrs. F.W. Banfield and Mr. M.A. Shea, who acquired it from Banfield during construction…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2000
Owner Joel Adechi renovates the house, removing its original doorway pediment and window lintels
In 2000-01 owner Joel Adechi and architect Lynn Bader renovated the house, and the original broken pediment over the entrance and the splayed lintels at the first-story windows were lost. The slate-covered hip roof with its overhanging eaves, hipped dormers, second-story brick lintels and historic copper gutters survived. The Landmarks Preservation Commission describes the house as altered Colonial Revival.
“…both of these features were lost in a renovation by owner Joel Adechi and architect Lynn Bader in 2000-01…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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