323 West 88th Street

323 West 88th Street

NB Number: NB 122-1896

Type:  Rowhouse

Architect:  Thomson, Theodore E.

Developer/Owner/Builder: Thomas Carlew

NYC Landmarks Designation:  Historic District

Landmark Designation Report: Riverside Drive- West End Historic District

National Register Designation: N/A

Primary Style:  Renaissance Revival

Primary Facade:   Brownstone

Stories: 4 and basement

Window Type/Material: One-over-one double-hung/Wood

Basement Type: Raised

Stoop Type: Unknown

Structure: These five brownstone-fronted houses are arranged in a pavilion design, with the end houses (Nos. 315 and 323) projecting slightly from the building line of the rest of the row. Each house is twenty feet wide, four stories above a raised basement, and has a three-bay design, with a two-story curved oriel capped by a carved frieze above the third story. The rowhouses have continuous roof and stringcourse lines and identical sheet metal cornices with deep decorated fascias. Pilasters are used as mullions in the oriels and flank the fourth-story windows. Carved panels-separate the parlor-story openings. There is basically one house design in this row, the houses varying only slightly in the carving at the base of the oriel-and in the use of rock faced or smooth ashlar at the basement story; Nos. 321 and 323 have smooth ashlar and the others have rock-faced ashlar. No. 315 projects slightly and has a curved corner where the wall recesses to meet the center houses. All originally had stoops leading to a parlor-story entrances, windows with one-over-one double-hung wood-framed sash, stained glass transoms above the parlor-story doors (as seen at No. 317), and grilles in the basement-story windows.

Historic District: Riverside Drive- West End HD

Alterations: The house has been painted white. The windows all have one-over-one aluminum replacement sash. The wrought-iron fence at the areaway and grilles in the basement-story windows are not original