313 West 88th Street
313 West 88th Street
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Date:Â 1889-90
NB Number:Â NB 1692-1889
Type: Â Rowhouse
Architect: Â Taft, Joseph H.
Developer/Owner/Builder:Â W Gunn/A Grant
NYC Landmarks Designation:Â Historic District
Landmark Designation Report:Â Riverside Drive- West End Historic District
National Register Designation:Â N/A
Primary Style: Â Flemish Revival
Primary Facade: Â Â Brownstone
Stories:Â 4
Window Type/Material:Â One-over-one double-hung/Wood
Basement Type:Â Raised
Stoop Type:Â Unknown
Roof Type: Pitched
Structure:This three-bay, four-story brick and brownstone-fronted rowhouse is nineteen feet wide and has a raised rusticated brownstone basement. It features a three-story, three-sided projecting bow front which is extended at the parlor and basement stories into a square stone portico at the eastern side of the facade. A carved column and composite capital support the cantilevered portico; a capital flanks the entrance opening at the other side. The fourth story is flush and has three windows inscribed in an arcade below a stepped parapet and a pitched roof. The eastern and western elevations, of which only the brick-faced eastern elevation is visible, both have stepped parapets. Other carved stone details include the spandrel between the second and third stories and keystones above the parlor-story and fourth-story windows. The original windows probably had one-over-one double-hung wood sash, with transoms at the parlor story.
Historic District: Riverside Drive- West End HD
Alterations: The building is painted white. The stoop has been removed and a basement entranceway with an overhead light created. Iron railings have been added at the areaway, at the original parlor-story entranceway, and at the top of the projecting bay. Some carved detail has been lost at the parlor story. The facade has been tarred above the fourth-story windows. The windows all have aluminum replacement sash, and the arched window openings at the fourth story have been partially infilled. The parlor-story windows have been reduced in height. A through-the-wall air conditioner sleeve has been cut below the center window at the parlor story. The roof has been resurfaced with tar paper. 1971: Alt 566-1971 [Source: Alteration Application] Stoop removed when building converted from a rooming house to ten apartments. Architect — Serge Klein Owner — Bertel Realty
History: This house is the only survivor of a four-house row which originally extended from No. 307 to No. 313 West 88th Street. The other houses were demolished in 1927 for the construction of a sixteen-story apartment building. Designed by Joseph H. Taft, the row was built in 1889-90, probably for the major West Side developer, W.E.D. Stokes, although the owners of record are listed as W. Gunn and A. Grant. Taft was Stokes’s architect between 1887 and 1890. Stokes was responsible for many rows west of Broadway and north of 81st Street, although he frequently had others file his applications at the Department of Buildings. This house resembles those in the row across the street at Nos. 304 to 314 West 88th Street, which were also designed by Taft with James B. Gunn as the owner of record. Selected References: New York City Department of Taxes Photograph Collection, Municipal Archives and Record Collection, H 2370. Lori Zabar, “The Influence of W.E.D. Stokes’ Real Estate Career on West Side Development,” Master’s Thesis, Columbia University, 1977, 2, 19.