Fiorello La Guardia House

5020 Goodridge Avenue | Riverdale | built 1925

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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. 1915

    Harrie T. Lindeberg designs a Tudor Revival house for illustrator Arthur I. Keller

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    Architect Harrie T. Lindeberg designed this house, built in 1914-15 for the artist and illustrator Arthur I. Keller, and it was one of the earliest privately developed homes in what became the Fieldston Historic District. Keller sold it in 1919 to Dr. Clyde Kennedy Miller. A later owner, Mary O. Wallen, had the prolific Fieldston architect Dwight James Baum add the attached garage wing in 1929.

    “…designed by architect Harrie T. Lindeberg and built in 1914-15 for Arthur I. Keller, an artist and illustrator.”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1945

    Fiorello La Guardia moves here after finishing his third term as mayor

    Fiorello La Guardia, who had won election as mayor of New York City in 1933, made this Fieldston house his home once his third term in City Hall ended in 1945. The Landmarks Preservation Commission's report on the Fieldston district records that he stayed in the house until his death.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 1947

    September 20

    Former mayor Fiorello La Guardia dies at home here at age 64

    Fiorello La Guardia died of pancreatic cancer in this house on Goodridge Avenue on September 20, 1947, at the age of 64. Only four months earlier his sister Gemma La Guardia Gluck, a survivor of the Ravensbrück concentration camp, had returned to New York and been reunited with him.

    Source: Wikipedia

  4. 1968

    A fire damages the house and its original roof is rebuilt in full for owner Robert Silverberg

    A fire in 1968 led to the complete reconstruction of the house's original roof; city building records list the owner at the time as Robert Silverberg. The rebuilt roof has steeply sloping intersecting gables with overhanging eaves. The house still keeps much of its Tudor Revival character, including its fieldstone base and a round-arched entry with a leaded-glass door in a fieldstone surround.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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