5294 Sycamore Avenue

Riverdale | built 1938

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.

1938
Julius Gregory designs a neo-Georgian house for the developer Sycamore Estates
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Architect Julius Gregory designed this house in 1938 for Sycamore Estates, on a lot taken from the lower end of the old Charles W. Foster estate. It is a two-story wood-frame house with a brick veneer, a hipped roof, a large chimney and an attached garage on the east side. A bay window and an entrance portico sit on its north side, and the garage shares a driveway from West 254th Street with 5288 Sycamore Avenue.
“It was designed in a Nee-Georgian style by Julius Gregocy for Sycamore Estates and sold to Jane McCain in 1946.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1946
Jane McCain buys the house along with the corner lot beside it
Jane McCain bought the house from Sycamore Estates in 1946, together with the adjoining lot at 5298 Sycamore Avenue on the corner of West 254th Street. Some structure was built on that corner lot after 1938, but it was gone by the time of a 1967 aerial photograph. The corner lot is now the side yard of the house.
“No. 5294 Sycamore Avenue (V.4, 1938) was sold to Jane Mccain in 1946, as was the third lot at 5298 Sycamore Avenue (V.A).”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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