331 West 87th Street

331 West 87th Street

Date: 1892

NB Number: NB 221-1892

Type:  Rowhouse

Architect:  Gilbert, C.P.H.

Developer/Owner/Builder: City Real Estate Co

Row Configuration: ABBA

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:   Buff Roman Brick, Sandstone, and Terra Cotta

Stories: 5

Window Type/Material: One large window at the first story, a tripartite window design at the second story, and two windows in each of the upper stories that have lintels with voussoirs and molded terra-cotta keystones.

Basement Type: American

Stoop Type: Low

Structure: Masonry bearing walls; These four five-story rowhouses are fifteen and sixteen feet wide and fronted in buff-colored Roman brick with terra-cotta trim above sandstone ground stories. Built with low stoops in the American basement style, the houses are designed to present a unified appearance; the end houses project beyond the building line of the center houses like pavilions, creating an ABBA rhythm. The unity is further emphasized by uniform round fifth-story windows and continuous cornice and string course lines.The area ways between the”A” and the “B” houses are separated by ornate wrought-iron fences. The “B” houses share a low box stoop. The entrances have wood and glass double doors. The type “A” houses (Nos. 327 and 333) are mirror images and serve as end pavilions to the row. Each house has a four-story bowed front capped by a terra-cotta balustrade and a flush fifth story with round windows set in elaborate surrounds.

Selected Reference: New York City Department of Taxes Photograph Collection, Municipal Archives and Record Collection, E 1296.

Historic District: Riverside Drive- West End HD

Alterations: There is a light fixture above the door.