4940 Goodridge Avenue

also 350 West 250th Street, 4941 Goodridge Avenue | Riverdale | built 1917

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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.

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

  1. 1917

    Dwight James Baum designs a clapboard Colonial Revival house for Delafield Estates

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    Built in 1917 for Delafield Estates, Inc., this house at the corner of Goodridge Avenue and West 250th Street was one of many Fieldston houses drawn by Dwight James Baum. It is a two-and-a-half-story wood-frame building covered in clapboards, with a pedimented entry, prominent brick chimneys and quarter-round windows in the side gables. Windows have been changed many times since.

    “…designed by prolific Fieldston architect Dwight James Baum and built in 1917 for Delafield Estates, Inc.”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1920

    Salesman Joseph E. Bush buys the house, and the Architectural League exhibits it

    In 1920 the house was bought by Joseph E. Bush, a salesman and manager of the Dutchess Manufacturing Co., which had offices at 200 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan and in Poughkeepsie. The same year, the Architectural League of New York published Baum's design in connection with its annual exhibition.

    “The house was acquired in 1920 by Joseph E. Bush, salesman and manager of the Dutchess Manufacturing Co.”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 1922

    Attorney Charles E. Hughes Jr. buys the house and has Baum enlarge it twice

    In 1922 Joseph E. Bush sold the house to an attorney, Charles E. Hughes, Jr. Hughes brought back the original architect, Dwight James Baum, to design expansions of it in 1925 and 1927. The Landmarks Preservation Commission's report lists a New York Times item of May 24, 1922 among its references.

    “Bush sold the house in 1922 to Charles E. Hughes, Jr., an attorney, who engaged Baum to design expansions of the house in 1925 and 1927…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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