35 Riverside Drive

35 Riverside Drive

Date: 1888-89

NB Number: NB 1135-1888

Block: 1185

Lot: 46

Type:  Rowhouse

Architect:  Lamb & Rich

Developer/Owner/Builder: C. & G. Lowther

NYC Landmarks Designation:  Historic District

Landmark Designation Report: West End – Collegiate Historic District

National Register Designation: N/A

Primary Style:  Renaissance Revival and Romanesque Revival

Primary Facade:   Limestone and Stone

Stories: Three-and-one-half-story rowhouse with basement.

Elements:  Rock-faced stone facade, smooth limestone trim; four-story round bay with open porch supported by classical columns and topped by a conical roof; one-over-one wood sash windows, curved at bay, with transom bars and lights at first floor, and oval oculus window at third floor; elaborate curved box stoop with bluestone treads and round-arched servants’ entry at front; single leaf wood and glass entry door with rectangular transom, wrought-iron grille, and foliate panel above; cornice; copper gutter with gargoyles at bay; elaborate wrought-iron grilles at basement windows and servant’s entry

Window Type/Material: One-over-one wood sash windows, curved at bay, with transom bars and lights at first floor, and oval oculus window at third floor.

Stoop Type: Elaborate curved box stoop with bluestone treads and round-arched servants’ entry at front.

Historic District: West End - Collegiate HD

History: Built as one of an ensemble of four houses (Nos. 35-38), two of which have been demolished.

Alterations: Fourth-floor porch walled in with glass; original roof removed and roof resurfaced with asphalt shingles; wrought-iron window grilles installed at first floor; three entry lamps added.

Further reading: Landau, Sarah Bradford. “The Row Houses of New York’s West Side,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 34, (March 1975), 19-36.