309 West 89th Street
309 West 89th Street
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Date:Â 1890
NB Number:Â NB 678-1890
Type: Â Rowhouse
Architect: Â True, Clarence
Developer/Owner/Builder:Â William E Lanchantin
NYC Landmarks Designation:Â Historic District
Landmark Designation Report:Â Â Riverside Drive- West End Historic District
National Register Designation:Â N/A
Primary Style: Â Romanesque Revival
Primary Facade: Â Â Brownstone
Stories:Â 3
Window Type/Material:Â One-over-one, double-hung/Wood
Basement Type:Â Raised
Stoop Type:Â placeholder
Roof Type/Material:Â placeholder
Structure:Â The five brownstone fronted rowhouses at Nos. 301 to 309, and a sixth at No. 319, each twenty feet wide, are three stories above raised basements and have two-bay facades. They are unified by a carrunon roof line and stringcourse lines, two- or three-story projecting bays on the eastern half of the facades, stepped parapets between the buildings, the use of both smooth and rock-faced ashlar on the facades, regularly aligned window and ‘cornice heights, and decorative sunflower motif grilles at the basement stories. Many of the houses have been altered but it is apparent that all originally had hexagonal slate tile roofs, similar facade materials, and stoops leading to parlor-story entrances. The windows all originally had one-over-one double-hung wood sash. The houses have a variety of gables and turrets at the roof, and the ornamental carved stone details of the houses are similar, but each house is individual and distinct from its neighbors.
This house is distinguished by a three-sided projecting bay extending up to the third story which is surmounted by a single large gable intersecting the roofline. Decorative carving is placed above the third story windows and in the gable pediment. This is the only building in the row which has not been painted.
Historic District: Riverside Drive- West End HD
Alterations:Â The stoop was removed and a basement entranceway created when the building was converted from a single-family dwelling to a synagogue in 1942. The green-painted one-over-one double-hung wood sash are probably not-original. There has been some brownstone resurfacing at the basement story around the new entrance, and also at the parlor story at the site of the old entrance. The light above the entrance and the synagogue’s sign are not original. 1942: Alt 1387-1942 [Source: Alteration Application] Stoop removed when the house was converted from a single-family residence to a synagogue. Architect – Harry Hurwit Owner – Congregation Chaveth Chesed.
History:Â This row, originally of ten houses which extended from No. 301 to No. 319, was designed by the renowned Upper West Side architect Clarence True, for William E. Lanchantin, a developer active in the construction of such rows in this district. The houses were built in the course of seven months in 1890. The row was broken in 1914 when Nos. 311, 313, 315, and 317 were demolished for the erection of an eight-story apartment building.