326 West 88th Street
326 West 88th Street
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Date:Â 1892-93
NB Number:Â NB 371-1892
Type: Â Rowhouse
Architect: Â Townsend, Ralph S.
Developer/Owner/Builder:Â Wilcox & Ames
Row Configuration:Â ABB
NYC Landmarks Designation:Â Historic District
Landmark Designation Report:Â Riverside Drive- West End Historic District
National Register Designation:Â N/A
Primary Style: Â Romanesque Revival
Primary Facade: Â Â Limestone
Stories:Â 3 and basement
Window Type/Material:Â One-over-one double-hung/Wood
Basement Type:Â Raised
Stoop Type:Â Unknown
Roof Type/Material:Â Unknown
Structure: These three rowhouses comprise a complete and minimally altered row. The houses are four stories tall on raised basements and are faced in rusticated limestone ashlar. The houses were designed to present a harmonious house appearance within the row and also to relate architecturally to the five row located to the east, designed by Clarence True and built in 1890- 91. They are unified by the use of facade materials, triangular gables and Spanish tile pitched roofs. No. 326 relates to the adjacent row through its squared bay, similar to the squared bay used at No. 324, and the two rows share similar fenestration, stringcourse lines, and dormers. The original windows had one-over-one double-hung wood sash. The houses all have stoops with carved newel posts leading to parlor-story entrances, decorative grilles at the basement-story windows, and a variety of carved window surrounds. The original double doors (extant at Nos. 326 and 330) have wood-framed arched glass panes and a rectangular transom. There are two house types used in this row which are arranged in an ABB pattern (from east to west). The type “A” house (No. 326) is distinguished by the squared projecting bay capped by a stone balustrade on the eastern half of the facade. There are single windows at each story of the flush western bay and two at each story of the projecting bay. The fourth-story gable contains a Palladian style window. The newels are decoratively carved.
Historic District: Riverside Drive- West End HD
Alterations:Â This house has aluminum replacement sash in all of its windows, except in the Palladian window at the fourth story.
History: This three-house row, built in 1892-93 for the partnership of Wilcox & Ames, was designed by the noted New York architect Ralph S. Townsend. Townsend is listed in the New York City property conveyances as acquiring lot 47 in 1892, upon which No. 330 was built. Selected References: New York City Department of Taxes Photograph Collection, Municipal Archives and Record Collection, E 1294. ” New York County, Office of the Register, Liber Deeds and Conveyances, Block: 1249, lot 47, 1892.