Adapted from the 1983 House Tour Guide (Page 94)

Samuel Adams Warner (1822-1897) was a prominent architect who practiced at 132 Broadway, New York City from 1864 until his death in 1897. Warner was the architect of the Marble Collegiate Church at 29th Street and Fifth Avenue, New York City, and public buildings as far away as Texas, Louisiana and South Carolina. He also designed many commercial buildings in New York City, a number of which still stand in the Soho Cast-Iron District.

His obituary in The New York Times for June 24, 1987 states that he left an estate of $1,500,000. Warner lived nearby and Warner Avenue as named in his memory. A descendant, Harry Baltazzi, Cpt.,USN,Ret, wrote that family tradition credits Samuel Adams Warner with having donated the land upon which the station stands. Warner designed a house for his daughter, Emma (Mrs. Xenophon) Baltazzi, on nearby Railroad Avenue. His daughter's house called Bonnieview and a caretaker's cottage, in the Swiss Chalet Style, were built about 1875. Like the station, it has a jerkin-headed roof (Tour Guide 1961-1962 "Aalund" Page 11).

The cottage later became The Chalet restaurant and recently renamed Vienna after a Billy Joel song.

View looking north east from the railroad tracks, the Baltazzi Cottage as seen in 1878. Photo by George Brainerd.