311 West 91st Street

311 West 91st Street

NB Number: NB 55-1896

Type:  Rowhouse

Architect:  True, Clarence

Developer/Owner/Builder: Smith & Stewart

Row Configuration: ABCBDBC

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:   Limestone and Roman Brick

Stories: 4 1/2

Window Type/Material: See structure

Basement Type: American

Stoop Type: Low

Roof Type/Material: Mansard/Tile

Structure: These seven, four and a half-story houses were designed as a row and are unified by rusticated limestone ground stories, common cornice, roof and sill lines, mansard roofs, originally covered with tile (still present at No. 309), and roof dormers with swan’s neck pediments. Parapets with chimneys mark the divisions between the houses at the roofline. The historic windows are one-over-one double-hung wood sash and most original wrought-iron grilles survive covering the first story windows, service doors and cellar windows. Each house, designed with an American basement, is twenty-five feet wide. The facades are arranged in an asymmetrical rhythm of ABCBDBC (from east to west).

The D type house, No. 311, with a full bow front is very similar to the C type houses including facing material and entrance portico. However, the details of the window surrounds at the second and third stories are like those in the B type houses.

Historic District: Riverside Drive- West End HD

Alterations: : New white aluminum window sash are in the first, fourth and fifth story windows. Brown aluminum sash are in the second story windows. White storm windows are placed over the first story windows. The roof is covered with black asphalt shingles. One recent light fixture is placed at the door.