Location: 570 City Island Avenue. Block: 5635 Lot: 65.
Status: Never landmarked or heard. The current siding and decoration appear much more subdued than in the survey picture.
Description from the Bronx Survey: The house at 570 City Island Avenue displays a wide variety of architectural elements and no particular style. Its large box-like massing and the use of imbricated shingles as well as a Palladian window indicate that it was built at the turn of the century.
The two and one-half story house is irregularly shaped with the front entrance placed off-center, topped by an angular bay which becomes a hipped-roof dormer at attic level. The wide variety of decorative elements includes cut-out and bats’ wing wooden brackets.
The emphasis is on texture and ornament, and the apparent lack of relation among the various architectural elements shows an almost haphazard use of pattern-book ornament.
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