316 West 90th Street
316 West 90th Street
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Date:Â 1892-93
NB Number:Â NB 416-1892
Type: Â Rowhouse
Architect: Â True, Clarence
Developer/Owner/Builder:Â Theodore A Squier
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 Elizabethan Renaissance 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:  These three, four story rowhouses on raised basements are sixteen-and-a-half and seventeen feet wide and fronted in smooth and rock-faced brownstone ashlar. There are no repeated house types in this raw, but a unified appearance is achieved through the use of common cornice, roof, and stringcourse lines, similar facade materials, pitched roofs with gabled dormers, stoops leading to arched parlor story entrances, and wrought-iron grilles in the basement windows. All of the houses originally had hexagonal slate tile roofs ( as seen at Nos. 314 and 316), one-over-one double-hung wood-framed sash windows, and wood and glass doors ( as seen at No. 316)
This house is distinguished by a bowed two-story oriel at the second and third stories with a bracketed base and three windows at each story. At the roof is a small peak-roofed dormer with a single window. The parlor story is similar to that of No. 314.
Historic District: Riverside Drive- West End HD
Alterations: There has been some resurfacing of the basement brownstone and the house is painted beige at the upper stories. The windows all have white aluminum replacement sash. Through-the-wall air conditioner sleeves have been out below the center windows of the second and third stories and below the parlor story windows. The areaway wall has been replaced, and there is a light fixture above the parlor story entrance.
History: Built in 1892 for Theodore A. Squier, a rowhouse developer active in this district, these houses were designed by Clarence True, a New York architect notable for his rowhouse designs. True worked for Squier designing several rows in this district. Selected References: New York City Department of Taxes Photograph Collection, Municipal Archives and Record Collection, E 1295. New York Public Library, Photographic Views of New York City 1870’s-1970’s from the Collections of the New York Public Library (Ann Arbor, Mich., 1981), microfiche nos. 0620 B3. Clarence True, Designs of 141 Dwelling Houses Built on the West Side (New York, c. 1893), n.p.