262 West 89th Street
262 West 89th Street
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Date:Â 1894
NB Number:Â NB 83-1894
Type: Â Rowhouse
Architect: Â True, Clarence
Developer/Owner/Builder:Â Theodore A Squier
NYC Landmarks Designation:Â Historic District
Landmark Designation Report:Â Riverside Drive- West End Historic District
National Register Designation:Â N/A
Primary Style: Â Elizabethan Renaissance Revival
Primary Facade: Â Â Brownstone
Stories:Â 4 with basement
Basement Type:Â American
Structure: This brownstone fronted American basement plan rowhouse, fifteen feet wide, has four stories and is three bays wide with a three-sided bow front capped by a stone balustrade at the base of the fourth story. The top story is flush, and has three windows. The roof is slightly pitched and is covered with hexagonal slate tiles. The house has a pressed-metal cornice with modillions. Western Elevation: This elevation is brick and has no windows and no applied architectural detail.
Historic District: Riverside Drive- West End HD
Alterations: The parlor story has been reconfigured and refaced in white cast stone, and the low box stoop replaced. The brownstone of the upper stories has been completely resurfaced. The windows all have aluminum replacement sash. The door is not original.
History:Â This house is the survivor of an eight-house raw which originally extended from No. 258 to No. 272; it was built in 1894 for Theodore A. Squier, a developer responsible for several such rows in the district, and designed by the noted New York architect Clarence True. No. 264 and No. 272 were demolished in 1927 for the construction of the Congregation B’nai Jeshurun con4minity house, Nos. 258 and 260 were demolished for the construction of the Yorktown Theater (not included in the district).