325 West 101st Street

325 West 101st Street

Date: 1892

NB Number: NB 300-1892

Type:  Rowhouse

Architect:  Ferdon, Martin V.B.

Developer/Owner/Builder: George Reid

NYC Landmarks Designation:  Historic District

Landmark Designation Report: Riverside Drive– West End Historic District Extension II

National Register Designation: N/A

Primary Style:  Renaissance Revival

Primary Facade:   Brownstone

Stories: 3 and basement

Structure:Significant Architectural Features: Stoop with carved newels; round arched entrance; full surround with carved tympana, pilasters decorated with lions, foliate capitals and keystone with face of a mustachioed man; possibly historic doors and transom; round bay, rusticated at basement; molded and foliate stringcourses; lintel with foliate brackets and denticulated molding at window head at second story; denticulated moldings at window heads at third story; foliate lintel and carved spandrel at third story; metal cornice with cable, leaf and denticulated moldings and sunburst

Building Notes: Built as a dwelling it was converted to non-housekeeping bachelor apartments in 1918 (ALT 1837-1918) but by 1934 it appears that it had been returned to a two-family dwelling (ALT 1268-1934).

Site Features: Historic areaway wall; brick planter

South Facade: Designed (historic, painted) Stoop: Resurfaced; painted stoop (historic gate under stoop) Door(s): Possibly historic primary door; possibly historic wood-and-glass outer doors Windows: Mixed (upper stories); replaced (basement); Security Grilles: Not historic (upper stories); historic (basement) Cornice: Historic Sidewalk Material(s): Concrete Curb Material(s): Concrete with metal edge Areaway Wall/Fence Materials: Stone Areaway Paving Material: Concrete

Historic District: Riverside-West End Historic District Extension II

Alterations: Stoop walls resurfaced and painted; storm windows; cellar windows replaced; alarm box; lights; mailbox attached to stoop; camera