304 West 81st Street

304 West 81st Street

Date: 1897-98

NB Number: NB 673-97

Type:  

Architect:  True, Clarence

Developer/Owner/Builder: Metropolitan Improvement Co. (E.L. Schiller)

NYC Landmarks Designation:  Historic District

Landmark Designation Report: Riverside Drive- West 80^th-81^st Street Historic District

National Register Designation: N/A

Primary Style:  Elizabethan Renaissance Revival

Primary Facade:   Roman Brick with limestone detail

Stories: Four-and-one-half

Window Type/Material: One-over-one wood sash (except at fourth floor). Round-arched window (originally entry) with egg-and-dart molding and cartouche keystone on first floor.  Windows with keyed enframements and cartouches on second floor. Windows with keyed enframements on third floor. Round-arched windows with Gibbs surrounds on fourth floor.

Cornice: Modillions.

Roof Type/Material: Pitched; end walls with chimney, central dormer with stylized pilasters and scroll pediment with cartouche.

Historic District: Riverside Drive - West 80th - 81st Street HD

Alterations: Ground floor changed: original recessed entry converted to window, service entrance converted to main entry, openings originally round-arched, new base created, wrought-iron window grilles installed; original roof tiles replaced by asphalt shingles; two small skylights installed on roof; single-pane window replaced one-over-one wood sash on fourth floor; entry lamp installed.