313 West 77th Street

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313 West 77th Street

Date: 1890-92

NB Number: NB 1610-1890

Block: 1186

Lot: 16

Type:  Rowhouse

Architect:  Taylor, Van Campen

Developer/Owner/Builder: Francis M. Jenks

NYC Landmarks Designation:  Historic District

Landmark Designation Report: West End – Collegiate Historic District

National Register Designation: N/A

Primary Style:  English Renaissance Revival and Romanesque Revival

Primary Facade:   ashlar, Brick, and rock-faced masonry

Stories: 4 1/2 with basement

Elements: Four-and-one-half-story rowhouse with basement and mansard roof; rock-faced masonry base at first floor with smooth ashlar upper stories; double-hung multipaned wood sash windows; low box-shaped stoop with solid rail carved in foliate relief; asymmetrically grouped, round-arched entry and window with pellet molding enframement and continuous hood molding; round-arched, single-leaf wood door with glazed panel; servants’ entrance at street level with single-leaf, glazed, wood door and square-headed transom; banked groups of three, nine-over-nine windows at second and third stories; spandrels with decorative carving between floors; three round-arched six-over-six windows with flush bead molding enframement at fourth floor; later period Palladian dormer; raised party walls with coping; brick chimney.

Historic District: West End - Collegiate HD

Alterations: Wrought-iron areaway railing added, along with iron grilles at first floor window and entry door; entry lamp installed. Original twelve-over-twelve arched windows (seen in No. 321) replaced by six-over-six windows with transom. The nine-over-nine windows on the second floor may have originally had twelve-over-twelve sash as seen in No. 321 West 77th Street, and the six-over-six sash on the fourth floor may have been nine-over-nine, also in No. 321.

History: Built as one of a row of eleven houses (Nos. 307-327) by McDowell and Hoeney masons at a cost of $ 12,000,00. Nos. 307-311 and Nos. 323-327 have since been demolished. Frank L. Smith purchased the house on November 2, 1892.

References: New York City, Department of Buildings, Manhattan, Plans, Permits and Dockets.