4711 Iselin Avenue

Riverdale | built 1933

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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. 1933

    James C. MacKenzie designs a porticoed neo-Classical house for Theodore and Margaret Baumeister

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    Built around 1933 under permit NB 247-1933, this brick house was designed by James C. MacKenzie for Theodore Baumeister Jr. and Margaret K. Baumeister. Its front is dominated by a full-width portico of square wood columns rising two stories, framing paired paneled doors under a five-pane transom. The roof is slate, and the windows keep six-over-six wood sash with louvered shutters.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1933

    The architect of the Harlem YMCA designs one of his two Fieldston houses here

    James Cameron MacKenzie Jr. trained at Columbia and the Ecole des Beaux Arts and drafted for McKim, Mead & White before opening his own practice in 1919. His work included the Harlem Branch YMCA of 1932, the Reader's Digest headquarters in Chappaqua, the Jacob Riis public housing project and the 1950 redevelopment of Liberty Island. In Fieldston he designed only two houses, and this is the neo-Classical one; the other is Tudor Revival.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 1996

    A brick north wing is added to the house in 1996-97

    In 1996-97 the architects Byrns, Kendall & Schieferdecker added a one-and-a-half-story north wing to the house for its owner at the time. The wing is faced in running-bond brick and holds a garage behind a paneled wood roll-up door. Its slate gable roof has a flared eave and a segmental dormer with a tripartite window on the east slope.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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