Nils V. Hansell House
5012 Waldo Avenue | Riverdale | built 1927
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1927
Frank J. Forster completes a fieldstone and half-timbered house for civil engineer Nils V. Hansell
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Architect Frank J. Forster designed this Medieval Revival house, filed in 1926 and finished in 1927 for Nils V. Hansell, a civil engineer. It has fieldstone and whitewashed stucco walls, steep gable roofs, a big fieldstone chimney and an entrance porch framed in timber with a screen of wooden spindles.
- 1937
Dwight James Baum carries out a $4,000 alteration for Mrs. N.V. Hansell
A decade after the house was built, Mrs. N.V. Hansell hired Dwight James Baum, Fieldston's busiest architect, for an alteration costing $4,000, recorded under permit ALT 278-1937. The landmarks report does not say what the work involved. The house was later counted as a substantially intact part of the Fieldston Historic District.
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