4731 Grosvenor Avenue

Riverdale | built 1921

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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. 1919

    Dwight James Baum designs a clapboard Colonial Revival house for Richard Bawler

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    Built in 1919-21 for Richard Bawler, this house was another Fieldston design by Dwight James Baum. It has narrow clapboard siding, an overhanging second story with pendants, a pilastered front doorway and eight-over-eight wood windows. A two-story garage wing stands to the north; its roof and dormers were later altered, but the commission judged the house largely intact.

    “…built in 1919-21 for Richard Bawler at a time when the Fieldston neighborhood was being developed…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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