5021 Iselin Avenue

Riverdale | built 1928

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

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1928
Dwight James Baum completes a house for Bronx Motors president Nicholas E. Bates
This house was finished in 1928 for Nicholas E. Bates, who served as president of the Bronx Motors Distributing Company. Dwight James Baum drew the plans at a time when Fieldston homes still had to follow the strict design rules of the neighborhood's property owners' association.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2006
Landmarks report finds the Bates house a nearly unaltered Mediterranean Revival design
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When Fieldston became a historic district, the Landmarks Preservation Commission described the two-story Bates house as substantially intact. It noted the whitewashed stucco over a wood frame, roofs covered in clay tile, an unusual hooded chimney, and a balcony with turned wooden balusters; the wrought-iron fence around the lot is a later addition.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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