474 West 246th Street

also 4551 Delafield Avenue | Riverdale | built 1920

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1919
Granville W. Baxter designs a stuccoed neo-Classical house for Elizabeth LeCato
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Elizabeth LeCato had this house built in 1919-20 at the corner of West 246th Street and Delafield Avenue, to a neo-Classical design by architect Granville W. Baxter. Landmarks staff single out its stucco walls, hipped roofs, a projecting entrance portico, and round-headed transom windows with curved sash. It went up while Fieldston was filling with picturesque houses built under the strict design rules of the Fieldston Property Owners Association.
“Designed by Granville W. Baxter and built in 1919-20, the house is representative of the residential architecture dating from the period…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1935
Elizabeth LeCato sells her Fieldston house to attorney Joseph C. Thompson
In 1935 Elizabeth LeCato, who had commissioned this neo-Classical house from Granville W. Baxter in 1919, sold it to Joseph C. Thompson, a lawyer. It is one of the many picturesque houses put up in Fieldston under the property owners association's strict design rules.
“Elizabeth LeCato sold the house to Joseph C. Thompson, an attorney, in 1935.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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