Location: 4930 Palisade Avenue, Block: 5937, Lot: 380. Senior Building, River Campus of the Riverdale Country School.
Status: Never landmarked or heard.
Description from the Bronx Survey:Now part of the Riverdale Country Day School, the brick house originally known as the George Foster residence was designed c. 1871. Typical of the Victorian period, the house exhibits an eclectic use of detail that results in a handsome asymmetrical design.
An enclosed porch runs across the east and south facades of the 2½-story structure, forming a wide curve at the corner, and is topped by a round turret with a steep conical roof pierced by a round window, A mansard roof caps the attic story which is lit by dormer windows, and both porch and roof cornices are ornamented with modillions.
Suitably sited overlooking the Hudson River, the house is, like the nearby Spaulding residence, a fine example of the picturesque quality that characterized American domestic architecture during the mid-and late-nineteenth century.
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