Merritt House

5000 Fieldston Road | Riverdale | built 1922

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

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1922
W. Stanwood Phillips completes a Tudor Revival house for Dr. A.H. Merritt
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Architect W. Stanwood Phillips designed this house for Dr. A.H. Merritt, and it was completed in 1922. The frame is faced in fieldstone, whitewashed stucco and false half-timbering, under slate gable roofs with fieldstone and brick chimneys. The main door sits in a Tudor-arched opening topped by a label molding.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1928
Dr. Merritt has the side porch enlarged by the house's original architect
In 1928 Dr. A.H. Merritt had the side porch of his house enlarged. The work was designed by W. Stanwood Phillips, who had also designed the house, completed in 1922. It is the only major alteration the Landmarks Preservation Commission records.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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