5245 Sycamore Avenue
Riverdale | built 1950
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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.
- 1946
Evelina Perkins sells this Stonehurst lot to Henry N. Furnald Jr.
Evelina Perkins began carving lots out of the eastern part of the Stonehurst estate in 1937, along a private road laid out about where the northern arm of the old estate driveway had run. In 1946 she sold this lot, west of 5243 Sycamore Avenue, to Henry N. Furnald Jr., who kept it until 1950.
“In 1946 Mrs. Perkins sold the adjacent lot to the west, at 5245 Sycamore Avenue, to Henry N. Furnald, Jr.”
- 1950
Alton L. Craft designs a house and garage for Roderic B. Swenson
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Roderic B. Swenson bought this lot from Henry N. Furnald Jr. in 1950 and that year built a neo-Federal house and a garage on the north private road. The architect was Alton L. Craft, who also designed his own house nearby at 5209 Sycamore Avenue. The lot had been part of the Cromwell estate until Evelina Ball Perkins began dividing it in 1937.
“…sold it to Roderic B. Swenson in 1950. Swenson built this house and garage, designed by Alton L. Craft, on the north private road…”
- 1957
A two-room addition is built over the back of the Swenson house
A one-story extension went up at the rear of the house in 1953, and in 1957 two more rooms were built on top of it. The roughly square two-story house keeps its flush wood siding, a foliate frieze under the eaves and a large multipane bay window on the west side above a deck. The shingled garage stands to the southeast, and the lot has stone walls and a large copper beech.
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