5051 Iselin Avenue

Riverdale | built 1920

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.

1928
Physician Dudley H. Morris builds the house as an investment
Dudley H. Morris, a doctor practicing in the area, was the first owner of this Julius Gregory design, built in 1928-29. The Landmarks Preservation Commission concluded that Morris seems to have put up this house, along with another Gregory design at 4690 Henry Hudson Parkway East, as investments.
“Dudley H. Morris, a local physician who appears to have built this house and the house at 4690 Henry Hudson Parkway East as investments…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1929
Julius Gregory gives the Morris house flared eaves and big fieldstone chimneys
This story-and-a-half Colonial Revival house has a wood frame covered in whitewashed stucco, gabled dormers, flared overhanging eaves, large fieldstone chimneys, and an entry framed by multi-pane sidelights and a transom. The window sashes were later replaced, and the lower north slope of the roof was reslated in a pattern that does not match the original, but the commission found nearly all historic features still in place.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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