316 West 81st Street

316 West 81st Street

Date: 1897-98

NB Number: NB 583-97

Type:  Townhouse

Architect:  True, Clarence

Developer/Owner/Builder: Clarence True

NYC Landmarks Designation:  Historic District

Landmark Designation Report: Riverside Drive- West 80^th-81^st Street Historic District

National Register Designation: N/A

Primary Style:  Elizabethan Renaissance Revival

Primary Facade:   Limestone

Stories: Four-and-one-half

Window Type/Material: One-over-one wood sash. Windows with keyed enframements on second third floors. round-arched windows with keyed pilaster motif and drip moldings with keystones; molded sill course; parapet at top of bow on fourth floor.

Stoop Type: Low stoop with wing walls.

Roof Type/Material: Pitched; stepped end walls with chimneys; complex dormer with inwardly curved pediment with cartouche surmounted by smaller triangular pediment.

Historic District: Riverside Drive - West 80th - 81st Street HD

Alterations: Cornice removed; pilasters removed from dormer, window changed; original roof tiles replaced by shingles; aluminum storms added to windows; entry lamps added.