324 West 80th Street

324 West 80th Street

Date: 1898-1899

NB Number: NB 413-98

Type:  Townhouse

Architect:  True, Clarence

Developer/Owner/Builder: Riverside Building Co. (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: Round-arched windows with wrought-iron grilles on first floor; windows with Gibbs surrounds on second floor;  one-over-one wood sash windows with keyed enframements; decorative parapet at top of bow on third floor; round-arched one-over-one wood sash windows with Gibbs surrounds on fourth floor.

Entrance: Recessed round-arched entry with decorative reveals; wood and wrought-iron door.

Roof Type/Material: Pitched; tile; stepped end walls with chimneys; 2 dormers with composite order pilasters and entablature surmounted by smaller dormer motif with round-arched pediment.

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

Alterations: Wrought-iron service entrance gate replaced with metal and glass door; cornice modified; facade painted; fourth floor resurfaced with stucco; one-over-one wood sash windows replaced by sliding metal frame windows (and length shortened) second floor and single-pane wood frame ground floor; one air conditioner pierces ground floor facade wall; scrolls of dormers removed, entablatures modified and upper windows blocked; entry lamps added.