4711 Fieldston Road

Riverdale | built 1901

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
Delafield Estate, Inc. builds a Craftsman house designed by Albro & Lindeberg
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This house was built in 1913 for Delafield Estate, Inc., while members of the Delafield family were developing Fieldston. The firm Albro & Lindeberg designed it in the Craftsman style, with a massive fieldstone stoop, shed-roof dormers, fieldstone accents and an irregular, picturesque roofline. The Landmarks Preservation Commission found it largely intact.
“…built in 1913 for Delafield Estate, Inc., at a time when the Fieldston neighborhood was being developed…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1921
Owner Mrs. James Harden adds a garage designed to match the house
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By 1921 the house belonged to Mrs. James Harden, and that year a garage by architect G.W. Dexter went up for her on the property. The Landmarks Preservation Commission describes the garage as matching the 1913 Craftsman house.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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