312 West 89th Street
312 West 89th Street
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Date:Â 1889-90
NB Number:Â NB 1247-1889
Type: Â Rowhouse
Architect: Â Camp, Frederick T.
Developer/Owner/Builder:Â Garrett Van Cleve
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 Renaissance Revival
Primary Facade: Â Â Brick and Brownstone
Stories:Â 4
Window Type/Material:Â See detail
Basement Type:Â Raised
Stoop Type:Â Unknown
Roof Type/Material:Â Pitched/Slate
Structure:Â Â These four brick and brownstone rowhouses are twenty to twenty-two feet wide and four stories above raised basements. They are unified by their brick facades with stone trim, steeply pitched roofs with hexagonal slate tiles and pedimented dormers, similar decorative masonry detail, and identical stepped parapets between the houses. There is no discernible pattern among the designs of these houses, although Nos. 314 and 324 appear to have matched originally. Some of the houses have been altered, but all originally had stoops leading to parlor story entrances, windows which probably had one-over-one double-hung wood-framed sash, and wrought iron grilles at the basement.
312:Â This house has a slightly projecting squared three-bay oriel with a cornice centered at the second and third stories. Corbelled and raised brickwork surrounds the oriel which is supported on brackets. Above the oriel is a pedimented two-bay dormer. The basement story has quarry faced ashlar piers.
Historic District: Riverside Drive- West End HD
Alterations:Â The building has been painted white at the basement and parlor stories and blue above. The stoop has been removed and a basement entranceway created. The carved parlor story door surround exists but the door has been replaced with a window. The windows have aluminum replacement sash. The areaway wall has been replaced. A through-the-wall air conditioner sleeve has been cut below the third story window in the western bay. The roof has been tarred. The building has been combined with No. 314 with which it shares a tax lot. 1967: Alt 1518-1967 (Source: Alteration Application] The stoop was removed when the building was converted from a rooming house to ten apartments and combined with No. 314. Architect — Lawrence Shutkind owner – Gottlieb Properties, Inc.
History: The houses at Nos. 312, 314, 322 and 324 are the survivors of a seven house row which originally extended from No. 312 to No. 324 West 89th Street. Built in 1889-90 for Garrett Van Cleve, the row was designed by Frederick K. Camp. The row was disrupted in 1921 when the three center houses (Nos. 316, 318, and 320) were demolished for the construction of an apartment building. Nos. 312 and 314 have been internally combined and now share the same tax lot.
Selected References: Frank L. Fisher, The Beautiful West Side: A Complete List of West Side Dwellings (New York, c. 1895); 58. New York City Department of Taxes Photograph Collection, Municipal Archives and Record Collection, E 1295; H 2370. New York Public Library, Photoqraphic Views of New York City 1870’s-1970’s from the Collections of the New York Public Library (Ann Arbor, Mich., 1981), microfiche nos. 0619 El; 0619 E 5.