4747 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.

1927
David J. Cohan designs a stucco-and-brick Craftsman house for the Harth family
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Joseph C. and Marie B. Harth were the original owners of this house, filed as NB 1476-1927 and built in 1927-29 to plans by David J. Cohan. Its structural brick is partly coated in tinted stucco and partly faced in Flemish-bond brick that mixes in clinkers and projecting headers, all on a fieldstone-and-brick foundation.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1934
Coffee company manager Joseph C. Harth lives in the house into the 1930s
Co-owner Joseph C. Harth worked as a salesman and manager for Harth Coffee, Inc., whose address was 2472 Jerome Avenue in the Bronx. He remained in this Fieldston house until at least 1934, according to the Landmarks Preservation Commission's report on the district.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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