266 West 77th Street

266 West 77th Street

NB Number: NB 53-89 (Alt. 2383-13)

Type:  Rowhouse

Architect:  Angell, Edward L.

Developer/Owner/Builder: Dore Lyon

NYC Landmarks Designation:  Historic District

Landmark Designation Report: West End – Collegiate Historic District

National Register Designation: N/A

Primary Style:  Romanesque Revival

Primary Facade:   Brick, Brownstone, rock-faced brownstone, and Yellow Brick

Stories: 4 with basement

Elements:  As designed, No. 266 was a duplicate of No. 264 West 77th Street.

264 – Four-story rowhouse with basement; brownstone at basement and first floor, yellow brick with brownstone trim above; one-over-one wood windows; rock-faced base and stoop; round-arched molded entry with colonnettes, transom, and decorative tympanum; double-leaf wood and plate glass entry doors; first floor three-sided bay with balustrade with open circular motif; second floor round-arched windows with arched moldings and transoms; upper stories with transomed windows (top floor with round arches); pediment with small round-arched blind window; stylized engaged colonnettes between fourth floor and roof.

Historic District: West End - Collegiate HD

Alterations: Stoop removed; pedimented entry with wood and multipaned glass door added at basement; rock-faced stone smoothed; transom bars at windows removed on all floors; all windows replaced as follows: one-over-one (white) wood sash at basement and first floor, wood casement windows at second floor, one-over-one wood windows at third floor, and single pane aluminum windows at fourth floor; storm windows added at first floor; wrought-iron railing installed at areaway; entry lamp added.

History: Built as a row of four houses (Nos. 262-268). Sold to Benjamin F. Romaine on June 11, 1891. Purchased in 1920 by prestigious real estate lawyer M. Carl Levine, who sold the house in 1925.

References: New York City, Department of Buildings, Manhattan, Plans, Permits and Dockets. New York Times, May 31, 1963, 23:5.