5243 Sycamore Avenue

Riverdale | built 1938

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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. 1937

    Reginald Lee and Dorothy Johnson build a neo-Colonial house on a former Stonehurst lot

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    After the Cromwell (Stonehurst) estate was subdivided in 1937, Mr. and Mrs. Reginald Lee Johnson bought this lot and built a house designed by Roland A. Gallimore, built in 1937-38. The two-and-a-half-story wood-frame house has a brick veneer and a roughly U-shaped plan, with a screened porch, a rounded entry vestibule, a west bay window and a shingled one-story wing. It faces the new north private road rather than Sycamore Avenue.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1946

    The Johnson lot grows by a strip about 25 feet wide on its west side

    In 1946 the lot was widened by a strip roughly twenty-five feet across on the west. The ground had earlier been crossed by the semicircular carriage drive of the Cromwell estate, and the stone posts that once flanked that drive's entrance still stand where the north private road meets Sycamore Avenue. An iron fence on a stone base, which may date from the estate's first years, runs along the street front.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 1969

    The owner of No. 5243 buys a small triangle of Stonehurst lawn with a huge copper beech

    In 1969 a small triangular lot cut from the grounds of the Stonehurst villa was sold to the owner of 5243 Sycamore Avenue. The Landmarks Preservation Commission lists it separately as (5241) Sycamore Avenue. It has no buildings but holds an enormous copper beech tree, and it makes up the part of this house's yard that faces Sycamore Avenue.

    “This small triangular lot was carved out of the property of the Stonehurst house and sold to the owner of 5243 Sycamore Avenue in 1969.”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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