4721 Delafield Avenue

Riverdale | built 1929

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.

1929
Bridge engineer Holton Duncan Robinson becomes the house's first owner
The first owner of this house, built in 1929, was Holton Duncan Robinson, who was connected with Robinson & Steinman, an engineering firm responsible for a number of well-known bridges. Robinson was still living in the house in 1934, according to the Landmarks Preservation Commission's district report.
“Its first owner, Holton Duncan Robinson, was affiliated with the renowned engineering firm of Robinson & Steinman, which designed a number of prominent bridges.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1929
Theodore E. Blake designs a Craftsman house of stuccoed terra-cotta block
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Theodore E. Blake designed this two-and-a-half-story house, filed as NB 749-1929, with a one-and-a-half-story wing to the south and a garage wing to the north. Its walls are terra-cotta block covered in whitewashed stucco on a fieldstone foundation, with slate hipped roofs that flare at the eaves and paired casement windows. Blake, who worked at Carrère & Hastings from 1888 to 1927, mostly designed institutional buildings; the commission names only this house and one in Greenwich, Connecticut, as his residential work. It found the house largely intact.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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