{"id":748,"date":"2016-05-03T21:04:34","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T01:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emilio.nyc\/old_wp\/?p=748"},"modified":"2017-07-26T18:35:20","modified_gmt":"2017-07-26T22:35:20","slug":"riverdale-music-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.emilio.nyc\/blog\/standard\/bronx-survey\/riverdale-music-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Riverdale Music School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.emilio.nyc\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Bicknell01.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-750\" src=\"http:\/\/www.emilio.nyc\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Bicknell01-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Riverdale Music School\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><strong>Location:<\/strong> 5260 Fieldston Road (West 253 Street At Post Road). Block: 5836, Lot:3127.<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Status:<\/strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"> Heard on 02\/09\/1982; 04\/13\/1982 and \u00a0on 1\/5\/1993 \u00a0as Joseph Bicknell Residence (now part of the Riverdale Country School), LP-1281. \u00a0It was decalendared via a no action motion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Description from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emilio.nyc\/blog\/bronx-survey\/the-1978-bronx-survey\/\">Bronx Survey<\/a>:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Riverdale Music School at Post Road and West 255rd Street is hou:.ed in the Gothic Revival homestead of the Joseph I, Bicknell family. Bicknell, a Manhattan printer, moved to Riverdale in 1872. Although an 1872 map shows the two and one-half story building standing on Bicknell &#8216;s estate, the house may in fact predate the Civil War. In 1910 the Bicknell estate was rented by the Riverdale Country Day School; the residence served as the main school building until 1917.<\/p>\n<p>The house was moved in 1924 and placed on a new stone foundation. By 192S an area of the hillside was leveled to form a football field and track behind a tall stone retaining wall along the Post Road. The basement of the school served as a locker room until 1960 when a new gymnasium was constructed.<\/p>\n<p>The upper stories have housed at various times the grade school, administrative offices, laboratories and the Music School. The Music School, a quasi-independent unit of the Riverdale Country Day School , currently occupies most of the building . The Riverdale Music School is a two and one-half story frame Gothic Revival house with a peaked roof that is pierced by the steeply pitched gable of a projecting oriel over the central entrance. Overhanging eaves are supported by jigsawn brackets and are ornamented with baseboards.<\/p>\n<p>A tall, one-story porch with brackets and posts. that form Tudor arches under the entablature extends across the full width of the building. A low spindle railing surrounds the porch. Windows have heavy central muntins. The door enframement is particularly fine with a Tudor arch and twin transom lights over a double, two-panelled door. Although the Music School building has been re&#8211;sided and extensions have been built over the years, it retains both the character and details of a Gothic Revival country house.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Location: 5260 Fieldston Road (West 253 Street At Post Road). Block: 5836, Lot:3127. Status: Heard on 02\/09\/1982; 04\/13\/1982 and \u00a0on 1\/5\/1993 \u00a0as Joseph Bicknell Residence (now part of the Riverdale Country School), LP-1281. \u00a0It was decalendared via a no action motion. Description from the Bronx Survey:\u00a0 The Riverdale Music School at Post Road and West [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[47,41,76,72,77,51],"class_list":["post-748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bronx-survey","tag-bronx","tag-bronx-survey","tag-joseph-bicknell-residence","tag-riverdale","tag-riverdale-music-school","tag-surviving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emilio.nyc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emilio.nyc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emilio.nyc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emilio.nyc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emilio.nyc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.emilio.nyc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1091,"href":"http:\/\/www.emilio.nyc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions\/1091"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emilio.nyc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emilio.nyc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emilio.nyc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emilio.nyc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}