320 West 81st Street

320 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:   Roman Brick

Stories: Four-and-one-half

Window Type/Material: One-over-one wood sash. Round-arched windows with wrought-iron grilles on first floor.  Two-story rounded oriel with keyed enframement, central blind windows on second and third floors.  Round-arched windows with Gibbs surrounds; sill course on fourth floor.

Stoop Type: Low stoop with stone posts.

Roof Type/Material: Pitched; (half) tile; stepped end walls with chimneys; Dutch gable with steps, scrolls, two small windows with keyed enframements, surmounted by cartouche.

Cornice: Interrupted by gable; modillions.

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

Alterations: Half of roof tiles removed.