Spaulding coachman's house, east wing
4970REAR Independence Avenue | also 4970 Independence Avenue | Riverdale | built 1899
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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.
- 1909
A small cottage is moved off the main Wave Hill grounds
In 1909 a small, plain cottage was moved away from the main Wave Hill grounds, the same year Henry F. Spaulding's 1880 coachman's house, designed by Charles W. Clinton, was moved across the street from a spot near the present rose garden. Both were then part of George Walbridge Perkins's Wave Hill estate; the cottage now forms part of the landmarked house.
“A smaller, simpler cottage, which also had been moved from Wave Hill proper in 1909, was attached to the coachman's house by a connecting addition in 1968.”
- 1968
A connecting addition joins the cottage to the Spaulding coachman's house as its east wing
In 1968 a one-story link with board-and-batten siding, a slate roof and a skylight attached the moved cottage to the coachman's house, making it the eastern wing. The Landmarks Preservation Commission called the one-and-a-half-story gabled cottage a good example of the tiny, inexpensive dwellings in mid-19th-century pattern books, with board-and-batten walls, bracketed eaves and a simple porch.
“This eastern wing, originally the separate building moved from the Wave Hill estate, is itself a good example of the very simple cottages published in pattern books…”
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