4750 Iselin Avenue

Riverdale | built 1969

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.

1966
Agop Chalekian builds a modern house after Fieldston loosens its design rules
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Construction of this one-story house for owner Agop Chalekian ran from 1966 to 1969, after the Fieldston Property Owners Association had relaxed the guidelines that once steered builders toward traditional styles. City Department of Buildings records name the engineer Nishan Balikjian as architect of record, yet Balikjian has denied having anything to do with the building, according to the Landmarks Preservation Commission's 2006 district report.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2006
Landmarks report holds up the house as an example of Fieldston's later modernism
The Fieldston district report names this house among the mid-century modern homes of the 1950s through the 1970s, which drew on no historical models and used very little applied ornament. It describes a single story faced partly in stone and partly in brick, with a central entrance gable under a shallow roof whose wide eaves rest on stylized rafter ends, and fixed glass panels running from floor to roof beside the door.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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