317 West 75th Street

317 West 75th Street

 

Date: 1893-94

NB Number: NB 150-93; Alt 1641-22

Block: 1185

Lot: 11

Type:  Rowhouse

Architect:  Kafka & Mott (Renaissance Revival (1894); neo-Georgian (present facade))

Developer/Owner/Builder: Perez M. Stewart

NYC Landmarks Designation:  Historic District

Landmark Designation Report: West End – Collegiate Historic District

National Register Designation: N/A

Primary Style:  Neo-Georgian and Renaissance Revival

Primary Facade:   Brick, Limestone, Metal, Red Brick, and Wood

Stories: 5 with basement

Elements: Five-story rowhouse with basement; limestone basement and red brick upper floors with limestone trim; limestone.lintels with keystones; nine-over-nine double hung wood sash; street level entrance with broken pediment door hood on scrolled brackets; wood and plate glass entrance door with decorative metal screen; fourth-story bracketed cornice; arched second-story window openings with panelled tympanum.

Historic District: West End - Collegiate HD

Alterations: New facade described above, 1922; aluminum downspout located at right.

History: Built as one of a row of e-fcght houses (Nos. 315-325; Nos. 327-329 have been demolished). As designed Nos. 315-321 were identical buildings. No. 317 was sold on May 7, 1894 to Charles Strauss, an active civic leader, lawyer and president of the New York Board of Water Supply. He was also a founder of the New York County Lawyers Association in 1908 and a major contributor to the construction, in 1924, of its headquarters on Vesey Street.

References: New York City, Department of Buildings, Manhattan, Plans, Permits and Dockets. New York Times, April 12, 1934, p. 23, “Charles Strauss” (Obituary).

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