Cosulich House

4720 Grosvenor Avenue | Riverdale | built 1927

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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.

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

  1. 1926

    Trieste shipping chief Giuseppe Cosulich builds a castle-like stone house

    Giuseppe Cosulich, president of the Cosulich shipping line of Trieste, Italy, with offices at 17 Battery Place in Manhattan, had this Norman Revival house built in 1926-27. Its solid fieldstone walls, round brick corner tower, pointed-arch carriage passages and heavy iron door hardware give it a sprawling, castle-like look that the Landmarks Preservation Commission found remarkably intact.

    “Cosulich was president of the Cosulich shipping line of Trieste, Italy, and 17 Battery Place, Manhattan…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1927

    Frank J. Forster, architect of the Cosulich house, wins an Architectural League medal

    Frank J. Forster, trained at Cooper Union and in Europe, ran a solo practice from 1911 and specialized in houses. The Architectural League gave him medals for his house designs in 1927 and 1929, and he won the Better Homes in America medal in 1933. He also took part in the Harlem Housing project. This house was one of five he designed in Fieldston, most of them in medieval revival styles.

    “Forster specialized in domestic architecture, winning medals for his house designs from the Architectural League in 1927 and 1929…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 1934

    Cosulich rents the house to a lawyer, then sells it three years later

    In 1934 Giuseppe Cosulich leased his Fieldston house to the attorney Henry Rosenblum. In 1937 he sold it to Henry Nires, who worked as both an attorney and a certified public accountant. The Landmarks Preservation Commission cites New York Times items from November 1934 and May 1937 for the two transactions.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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