324 West 71st Street

324 West 71st Street

Date: 1894-5

NB Number: 1058-94

Type:  Townhouse

Architect:  Horgan, Arthur J.

Developer/Owner/Builder: William Bradley

NYC Landmarks Designation:  Historic District

Landmark Designation Report:

No. 322 is one of a group three houses which were the last to be constructed on the south side of the street, linking the two groups designed by John Burne. The similarity of materials, cornice and sill heights within and between groups enhances the unity of the historic district. Within this group, the two lowest stories of all three houses share the same design elements. Above this, the two end houses—No. 322 and No. 326—are the same, with the middle house being distinct. Each house is three bays wide, with three stories and a raised basement. The basement, faced with bush hammered, rusticated stone, has two windows with ornate wrought iron grilles and a basement entrance beneath a high stone stoop. The three round-arched openings of the parlor story level are linked by a continuous stone hood molding and carved foliate pilaster capitals. The second story is distinguished by a large oriel, rounded on the end houses and angled on the center one. Carved stone stonework ornaments the lowest sections of the two outer oriels. Stone stringcourses and sillcourses define each story. All windows were originally one-over-one, double hung wood sash. The top story of the end houses has a tripartite window capped by a rounded, carved stone pediment, while the center house has three round-arched windows with a continuous, carved hood molding above them and incised designs above that. Broad metal cornices with identical designs cap each building.

National Register Designation:

Primary Style:  Renaissance Revival and Romanesque Revival

Primary Facade:   Stone

Stories: 3 with a basement

Window Type: Originally one-over-one, double hung wood sash

Historic District: West 71st Street HD

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Alterations: 

The stoop was removed and replaced with a curving wrought-iron stairway. A new door was created under the original entrance and a wooden replacement door was put in the main, parlor-story entrance. Storm sash covers all the windows except those on the basement level which have metal sash. The facade has been painted white with a tan cornice.