336 West 77th Street

336 West 77th Street

Date: 1896-97

NB Number: NB 641-96

Type:  Townhouse

Architect:  True, Clarence

Developer/Owner/Builder: Clarence True

NYC Landmarks Designation:  Historic District

Landmark Designation Report: West End – Collegiate Historic District

National Register Designation: N/A

Primary Style:  Elizabethan Renaissance Revival

Primary Facade:   Brick, Limestone, and Roman Brick

Stories: 4

Elements: Four-story town house with three-story bowfront and mansard roof; Roman brick facing with limestone trim; one-over-one wood sash windows with Gibbs surrounds; recessed ground level round-arched entry with single leaf wood door with glass panel and decorative entablature supported by stylized scrolls; ground level round-arched windows and servants’ entrance; decorative parapet at top of bowfront; fourth floor round-arched windows; modillioned metal cornice; two interrupted semicircular pedimented metal dormers with shields and pilasters; stepped, coped party wall with chimneys.

Historic District: West End - Collegiate HD

Alterations: Tile roof partly resurfaced; facade painted; wrought-iron window grilles replaced at first floor and guards added at third floor; stoop and areaway rebuilt; storm windows added at dormers; chimney cap removed; entry lamps added.

History: Built as one of a group of six houses (Nos. 44-46 Riverside Drive and Nos. 334-338 West 77th Street). Sold to Gideon Louis Boissevain on Sept. 10, 1897 and owned by him until 1902. Boissevain, a Dutch immigrant, was president of companies that owned the Vanderbilt Hotel and Madison Square Garden.

References: New York City, Department of Buildings, Manhattan, Plans, Permits and Dockets.
New York Times, April 26, 1924, 15:4.