Percival Wilds House

4710 Fieldston Road | also 401 Indian Road | Riverdale | built 1929

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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.

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  1. 1929

    Dwight James Baum completes a neo-Classical house for attorney Percival Wilds

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    Dwight James Baum designed this house, completed in 1929 for Percival Wilds. Wilds was a lawyer with Chamberlain, Wilds & Jube, a firm at Two Rector Street in Manhattan. The house has a main entrance portal topped by a balustrade of turned-wood balusters, a hipped roof, circular and elliptical windows, and Classically inspired surrounds at its front and rear doors.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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