309 West 87th Street

309 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: Box

Structure: Masonry bearing walls; The type “D” houses (Nos. 309 and 311), each two bays wide, are mirror images with box stoops. Each house has a flush bay containing the entrance and a single window at each of the second and third stories; the other bay has a double window with a transom set in a segmentally-arched enframement at the parlor story, a projecting two-window oriel at the second story, and two arched windows as a small arcade with pilasters and keystones at the third story. The flush bays are adjacent. The metal cornices are bracketed above the outside bays and the flush bays share a cornice with a decorative frieze. Both houses possibly had a tower roof above the outside bay (as seen at No. 309). The basements have smooth-faced ashlar; the common stoop wall facing the sidewalk has quarry-faced ashlar. There is carved detail below the oriels, above the doors, and around the parlor-story windows.

Historic District: Riverside Drive- West End HD

Alterations: The house has been painted white. The little tower roof
above the eastern bay has been resurfaced with asphalt sheeting. The
parlor-story windows have exterior storm sash.