318 West 81st Street

318 West 81st Street  

Date: 1897-98

NB Number: NB 583-97

Type:  Townhouse

Architect:  True, Clarence

Developer/Owner/Builder: placeholder

Row Configuration: 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 and Roman Brick

Stories: Four-and-one-half

Window Type/Material: Round-arched windows and service entrance with wrought-iron grilles and gate on first floor. Windows with keyed enframements; parapet at top of bow with decorative panels and stylized brackets; second floor multi-pane curved casement windows; wrought-iron and glass casement outer windows on second and third floors. Round-arched windows with Gibbs surrounds on fourth floor.

Cornice: Dentils

Stoop Type: Low stoop with wing walls.

Roof Type/Material: pitched; stepped end walls with chimneys; two complex dormers with pilasters and inwardly curving pediments with shields surmounted by smaller triangular pediments.

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

Alterations: Original roof tiles replaced by asphalt shingles; west end of cornice modified; all one-over-one sash windows replaced;
aluminum storms added to fourth floor and dormer windows; awning installed at entrance.