324 West 89th Street

324 West 89th Street

NB Number: NB 1247-1889

Type:  Rowhouse

Architect:  Camp, Frederick T.

Developer/Owner/Builder: Garrett Van Cleve

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:   Brick and Brownstone

Stories: 4

Window Type/Material: See structure

Basement Type: Raised

Stoop Type: Unknown

Roof Type/Material: Pitched/Slate

Structure:    These four brick and brownstone rowhouses are twenty to twenty-two feet wide and four stories above raised basements. They are unified by their brick facades with stone trim, steeply pitched roofs with hexagonal slate tiles and pedimented dormers, similar decorative masonry detail, and identical stepped parapets between the houses. There is no discernible pattern among the designs of these houses, although Nos. 314 and 324 appear to have matched originally. Some of the houses have been altered, but all originally had stoops leading to parlor story entrances, windows which probably had one-over-one double-hung wood-framed sash, and wrought iron grilles at the basement.

324: This house architecturally resembles No. 314. Both have parlor and basement story alterations but retain their tripartite oriels and dormers and patterned brick surrounds.

Historic District: Riverside Drive- West End HD

Alterations: The stoop was removed in 1956 and a basement entranceway – created, above which is a metal awning. The basement and parlor stories of this house have been resurfaced with white brick and the upper stories painted white with black at the cornices. The third-story windows have one-over-one double-hung wood replacement sash. Part of the dormer and the tiled roof have been tarred. The cornice below the dormer at the west side of the facade has been removed.

1956: Alt 497-1956 [Source: Alteration Application] Stoop removed when house converted from rooming house to ten apartments. Architect — Henry Z. Harrison Owner — Sammy Cort Corporation

History: The houses at Nos. 312, 314, 322 and 324 are the survivors of a seven house row which originally extended from No. 312 to No. 324 West 89th Street. Built in 1889-90 for Garrett Van Cleve, the row was designed by Frederick K. Camp. The row was disrupted in 1921 when the three center houses (Nos. 316, 318, and 320) were demolished for the construction of an apartment building. Nos. 312 and 314 have been internally combined and now share the same tax lot.

Selected References: Frank L. Fisher, The Beautiful West Side: A Complete List of West Side Dwellings (New York, c. 1895); 58. New York City Department of Taxes Photograph Collection, Municipal Archives and Record Collection, E 1295; H 2370. New York Public Library, Photoqraphic Views of New York City 1870’s-1970’s from the Collections of the New York Public Library (Ann Arbor, Mich., 1981), microfiche nos. 0619 El; 0619 E 5.