4682 Waldo Avenue

Riverdale | built 1913

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.

1913
Albro & Lindeberg design one of Fieldston's first houses for the Delafield Estates
Read more
Built in 1913, in the first years of the Fieldston development, this Craftsman house was designed by the firm of Albro & Lindeberg for the Delafield Estates Corporation. It has slate-covered gable roofs with deep eaves, eyebrow dormers and walls of tinted stucco and fieldstone, with a garage wing to the north. The house sits on a steep lot with its first floor partly below the grade of the street.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1913
September
Elizabeth Hooper buys the new house from the Delafield Estates
In September 1913, the same year the Delafield Estates Corporation put up the house, Elizabeth Hooper bought it from the developer. The Landmarks Preservation Commission's report on the district cites a New York Times item of September 27, 1913, among its sources for the house.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1948
Dr. DeWitt Stetten Jr. buys the house from Mrs. George Puckhafer
In 1948 the house changed hands again when Dr. DeWitt Stetten Jr., then of Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, bought it from Mrs. George Puckhafer. The district report lists a New York Times item headed "Bronx Deals Closed," from August 7, 1948, among its sources.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

Nearby