Samuel Schneweiss House

480 West 246th Street | Riverdale | built 1949

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

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1948
Usonia architect Aaron L. Resnick brings his modern style to Fieldston
Aaron L. Resnick (1914-1986), trained at New York University's architecture school and City College's engineering school, designed this house in 1948-49. He was best known for twelve houses at Usonia, a cooperative community in Pleasantville, New York, whose site plan, roads and three houses were by Frank Lloyd Wright. From 1965 until retiring in 1985 he taught architecture and engineering at the New York Institute of Technology.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1949
Aaron L. Resnick designs a modern house for Samuel Schneweiss after Fieldston eases its rules
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Completed in 1949 for Samuel Schneweiss, this Mid-Twentieth-Century Modern house by Aaron L. Resnick was possible only after the Fieldston Property Owners Association loosened design guidelines that had favored traditional styles. It mixes textured multi-colored brick with horizontal and vertical wood siding, banded windows, an angled enclosed rear porch, and monitor windows cut into the back of the roof. The Landmarks report describes the house as substantially intact.
“Completed in 1949 for owner Samuel Schneweiss and designed by architect Aaron L. Resnick, the house was constructed after the Fieldston Property Owners Association relaxed…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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