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.