305 West 71st Street
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Date: 1903-1904
NB Number: 551-03
Type: Â Townhouse
Architect: Â Keister, George
Developer/Owner/Builder: James O’Brien
NYC Landmarks Designation:Â Historic District
Landmark Designation Report:Â
No. 305 is a three-bay, four-story town house with its entrance on the ground story. This level serves as a base, above which the building is faced in red ironspot brick. The stone sill course above this story has full-height metal casement windows with curvilinear transoms with circles, and delicate, decorative wrought-iron and stone balconets carried on volutes. Elaborate projecting limestone scroll keystones top each window. The third story has three, six-over-one, double-hung wood sash windows with elaborate limestone pediments. Another simple stone sill course sets off the fourth story which is faced with banded brick and has three-over-one, double-hung wood sash windows. A broadly projecting, modillioned wood cornice crowns the building.
National Register Designation:Â
Primary Style: Â Beaux-Arts and Renaissance Revival
Primary Facade: Â Â Brick and Limestone
Stories:Â 4
Window Type: Full-height metal casement windows with curvilinear transoms with circles
Historic District: West 71st Street HD
Wish List:Â
Alterations:Â
The ground story has been altered with its original, low stoop removed and entrance moved from the easternmost to the westernmost bay. The original limestone facing of this story has been replaced with cement. The pedimented entrance is supported by flat pilasters surrounding a single door with a round-arched transom. Modern lamps surmount the pilasters and the entrance has been painted. Double, one-over-one metal sash windows have been fit into the other two ground story bays and have been covered with iron grilles. Simple, projecting keystones are centered in their lintels. A wrought-iron fence which has been reformed from its original configuration surrounds the areaway. A plain railing is visible above the cornice.