22 Riverside Drive

22 Riverside Drive

NB Number: NB 337-1930

Block: 1184

Lot: 63

Type:  Apartment Building

Architect:  Boak & Paris and Paris, William

Developer/Owner/Builder: Guide Realty Co. (original owner was Arlington C. Hall)

NYC Landmarks Designation:  Historic District

Landmark Designation Report: West End – Collegiate Historic District

National Register Designation: N/A

Primary Style:  Eclectic with Gothic and Elizabethan detailing

Primary Facade:   Brick, Cast Stone, and Red Brick

Stories: 20

Elements: Twenty-story apartment tower, red brick facing; cast stone base and trim; setbacks; double-leaf wood and plate glass entry door; hood molds at first three floors and penthouse levels; balcony at fifteenth floor; wrought-iron window grilles at first floor.

Historic District: West End - Collegiate HD

Alterations: Facade painted at entry; all original six-over-one wood sash windows and multi-paned corner casement windows, with the exception of one multi-paned casement at second floor center (over entry on Riverside Drive), were replaced by one-by-one aluminum sash windows with aluminum panning in December 1983; areaway wall at left has been added or rebuilt; rooftop additions.

History: Originally the site of a Charles P. H. Gilbert-designed town house built in 1895-1897 for George H. Macy this building replaced the extant C. P. H Gilbert house, which is the reason why this building has one of the smallest footprints of any building designed by Boak & Paris.

The building featured multi-pane steel casement windows for the first time on a Boak & Paris building.

Hall lived at 22 Riverside Drive until his death in 1948.

References: New York City, Department of Buildings, Manhattan, Plans, Permits and Dockets.

Alt, Annice M. Boak & Paris / Boak & Raad: New York Architects. Bloomington, IN: Xlibris, 2014. pgs. 55-57