313 West 87th Street

313 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

Basement Type: Raised

Stoop Type: Straight

Structure: Masonry bearing walls; capped by bracketed pressed metal cornices with pediments. Each is two bays wide below the third story and has a straight stoop leading to the parlor-story entrance, located at the eastern bay of No. 313 where it has its original exterior wood-framed glazed double doors with a transom in front of paneled wood doors. No. 307 has a squared door enframement with a classical triangular pediment, and No. 313 has an arched door opening with a pedimented enframement. No. 313 has three arched windows at the third story and has a textured pattern in the pressed-metal pediment. The basement story of each house has rusticated quarry-faced ashlar and an angled opening to the basement entrance.

Historic District: Riverside Drive- West End HD

Alterations: The house has been painted white. The windows all have one-over-one aluminum replacement sash. The grille at the parlor story is not original. Air conditioner sleeves have been cut below the parlor- and second-story windows of the western bay.