5000 Waldo Avenue

Riverdale | built 1929

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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.

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  1. 1929

    Warren, Shephard & Matthews build a fieldstone house for engraver Alfred C. Kihn

    Warren, Shephard & Matthews designed this house for Alfred C. Kihn, who was connected with Kihn Brothers Engravers in Manhattan; begun under a 1927 permit, it was completed in 1929. Built of rubble fieldstone with clapboarded dormers, a slate roof, hewn wood lintels and battened wood doors, it stands among rock outcroppings on a steep lot.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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