307 West 87th Street

307 West 87th Street

Date: 1891

NB Number: NB 481-1891

Type:  Rowhouse

Architect:  Minuth, Francis A.

Developer/Owner/Builder: John and David Dunn

Row Configuration: ABCDDCB

NYC Landmarks Designation:  Historic District

Landmark Designation Report: Riverside Drive- West End Historic District

National Register Designation: N/A

Primary Style:  Renaissance Revival

Primary Facade:   Brownstone

Stories: 3 with basement

Window Type/Material: placeholder

Basement Type: Raised

Stoop Type: Straight

Structure: Masonry bearing walls; The type “C” houses (Nos. 307 and 313) are capped by bracketed pressed metal cornices with pediments. Each is two bays wide below the third story and has a straight stoop leading to the parlor-story entrance, located at the eastern bay of No. 313, and at the western bay of No. 307, where it has its original exterior wood-framed glazed double doors with a transom in front of paneled wood doors. No. 307 has a squared door enframement with a classical triangular pediment. There is an early wrought-iron grille at the parlor story window of No. 307.

Historic District: Riverside Drive- West End HD

Alterations: There has been some resurfacing of the brownstone, seen
especially at the stoop. Exterior storm sash has been added to the windows
at the second and third stories.