337 West 87th Street

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337 West 87th Street

Date: 1893

NB Number: NB 123-1893

Type:  Rowhouse

Architect:  Thom & Wilson

Developer/Owner/Builder: Livingston & Dunn

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:   Limestone and tan roman brick

Stories: 4 and basement

Window Type/Material: One-over-one double-hung/Wood

Basement Type: Raised

Stoop Type: Long

Structure: Masonry bearing walls; These two rowhouses, each nineteen feet wide, are faced in tan Roman brick with limestone basement and parlor stories, and have four stories above raised basements. The houses are mirror images and share a beltcourse above the parlor story. Each house has a three-sided oriel at the second story, and two windows at the basement, parlor, third and fourth stories. The basement and parlor-story windows have engaged columns as mullions. The original windows had one-over-one double-hung wood-framed sash, and the original entrances had wood-framed glazed double doors with a transom (as can be seen at No. 335). The houses have long elegant stoops with a shared banister, the other banisters curve outward toward the area ways. Each house is capped by a metal.cornice.

Selected References: Frank L. Fisher, The Beautiful West Side: A Complete List of West Side  Dwellings (New York, c. 1895), 50. New York City Department of Taxes Photograph Collection, Municipal Archives and Record Collection, E 1296.

Historic District: Riverside Drive- West End HD

Alterations: This house has exterior sash in the parlor-story windows.