5025 Goodridge Avenue

Riverdale | built 1930

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

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1917
Evening Mail Syndicate publisher Virgil V. McNitt has Dwight James Baum build this Tudor house
Dwight James Baum designed this half-timbered Tudor Revival house, built in 1916-17 for Virgil V. McNitt, publisher and treasurer of the Evening Mail Syndicate. It went up while Fieldston was filling with houses in assorted picturesque styles. Leaded diamond-pane casements, hewn sills and flared clay-tile eaves still mark the design.
“…built in 1916-17 for Virgil V. McNitt ... McNitt was publisher and treasurer of the Evening Mail Syndicate, Inc.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1946
Owner Dr. Athelstan F. Spilhaus adds a garage with a rooftop terrace
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Between 1946 and 1948 the owner, Dr. Athelstan F. Spilhaus, had a new garage wing built into the slope, topped by a terrace, and turned the original garage into a playroom. The engineer on the job was Albert E. Wheeler. The terrace is still enclosed by a decorative wrought-iron railing.
“A garage wing with a rooftop terrace was built in 1946-48 and the original garage was converted to a playroom (... owner: Dr. Athelstan F. Spilhaus…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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