319 West 77th Street

319 West 77th Street

NB Number: NB 1610-1890

Block: 1186

Lot: 13

Type:  Rowhouse

Architect:  Taylor, Van Campen

Developer/Owner/Builder: Francis M. Jenks

NYC Landmarks Designation:  Historic District

Landmark Designation Report: West End – Collegiate Historic District

National Register Designation: N/A

Primary Style:  English Renaissance Revival and Romanesque Revival

Primary Facade:   ashlar, Brick, Brownstone, and rock-faced brownstone

Stories: 4 with basement

Elements: Four-story rowhouse with basement and mansard roof; rock-faced brownstone base at first floor with smooth ashlar upper stories; double-hung wood sash windows low, shared stoop in T-formation with rail embellished with sculpted relief; asymmetrically grouped round-arched entry and window with pellet molding enframement and continuous hood molding; double-leaf, semi-circular door at entry with quarter-round and rectangular glazed panels; servants’ entrance at street level with single-leaf wood door and glazed transom; banked groups of three windows at second and third stories; spandrels of decorative carving between floors; three round-arched windows with flush bead molding enframement at fourth floor; scalloped,cornice of brownstone; dormer; raised party walls with coping; brick chimney with brownstone quoins (shared with No. 321); original iron grille at basement window.

Historic District: West End - Collegiate HD

Alterations: Roofing material replaced; dormer covered with hipped roof; small pane windows (probably as in No. 321) replaced by double-hung, one-over-one wood sash windows; facade painted; entry lamp installed.

History: Built as one of a row of eleven houses (Nos. 307-327) by McDowell & Hoeney, masons, at a cost of $12,000,00. Nos. 307-311 and Nos. 323-327 have since been demolished. As designed, No. 319 was a mirror image of No. 321 West 77th Street. Supreme Court Justice George Carter Barrett bought the house on April 21, 1892, and lived there until his death in 1906 at which time he bequeathed the house along with his personal effects to Anne N. Hoes, of 321 West 77th Street, and William M. Hoes.

References: New York City, Department of Buildings, Manhattan, Plans, Permits and Dockets.
New York Times, June 8, 1906, 9:1, “George Carter “Barrett” (Obituary).
New York Times, June 13,. 1906, 8:6 “Justice Barrett’s Will.”