Stonehurst carriage house

5253 Sycamore Avenue | Riverdale | built 1910

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

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1856
William Cromwell's estate gets a stone carriage house, now the oldest in the district
This stone carriage house went up around 1856-58 on the Cromwell estate and is the oldest carriage house in the Riverdale Historic District, the only one surviving from Riverdale's first building phase in the 1850s. Its Italianate design matches the estate's villa. It stands on Sycamore Avenue, which has served since 1853 as the carriage alley for the original Riverdale development.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1937
Sycamore Estates turns the old Stonehurst stable into a house
After the estate was divided in 1937, the development firm Sycamore Estates converted the stable and carriage house into a residence, with Julius Gregory as architect. The front door now sits in the old carriage entrance facing Sycamore Avenue, under a gable whose big round-arched opening once led to the hay loft. The iron fence on a stone base out front was designed to match the original Cromwell estate fence still standing farther south.
“…the building was converted by the development firm of Sycamore Estates from its original use as a stable and carriage house to a residence…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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