321 West 80th Street

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Date: 1897-98

NB Number: NB 401-97

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:   Limestone and Roman Brick

Stories: Four-and-one-half

Window Type/Material: Round-arched windows with one-over-one wood sash on first floor;  windows with keyed enframements on second and third floors;  round-arched windows with Gibbs surrounds and one-over-one wood sash on fourth floor

Cornice: Dentils

Entrance: Doric entry with round arch (altered) with keystone, small roundels and half columns supporting an entablature.

Roof Type/Material: Pitched; (partially) tile; stepped end walls with chimneys; two complex dormers with pilasters and inwardly curved pediments surmounted by smaller triangular pediments.

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

Alterations: Facade painted; original recessed round-arched entry modified by installation of flush rectangular metal door; original service entrance altered by small projecting extension with wood and glass door; one-over-one wood sash windows replaced by multi-pane anodized aluminum windows at second and third floors; roof tilespartially removed and surface covered with tar; stone stoop wing walls removed; iron grilles replaced on ground floor windows.