321 West 77th Stret

321 West 77th Street

Date: 1890-92

NB Number: NB 1610-1890

Block: 1186

Lot: 12

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: No. 321 is a mirror image of No. 319 West 77th Street. No. 321 retains what appear to be its original sash: twelve-over-twelve at the second floor and nine-over-nine at the third and fourth floors. At the first floor, the twelve-over-twelve sash with arched muntins in the upper sash has recently been replaced with one-over-one wood sash.

319 – 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: Cornice altered; roofing replaced and dormer covered with a hipped roof; double-leaf entry doors removed; wrought-iron grilles added to main entry and servants’ doors and first floor window; entry lamp added.

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. No. 321 was designed as a, mirror image of No. 319 West 77th Street. On April 26, 1892, the house was purchased by Annie Nicoll Hoes. In 1906 Anne N. Hoes, with William M. Hoes, was bequeathed No. 319 West 77th Street by the will of Justice George C. Rarrett.

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