338 West 88th Street

338 West 88th Street

NB Number: NB 441-1893

Type:  Rowhouse

Architect:  Thom & Wilson

Developer/Owner/Builder: James Livingston

Row Configuration: AABCBAA

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:   tan roman brick and Terra Cotta

Stories: 4 and basement

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

Basement Type: Raised

Stoop Type:

Structure: These seven rowhouses are four stories above raised basements and twenty and twenty-one feet wide. They are faced in tan ironspot Roman brick with terra-cotta trim above limestone basements and parlor stories. Designed for a unified appearance, the houses have a common roofline, a continuous stringcourse above the parlor stories, regularly aligned window heights, and decorative grilles at the basement stories. There are three different house types in the row, distinguished primarily by the second and third story oriel treatment and arranged in an alternating pattern that creates an AABCBAA rhythm. Some of the houses have been altered but it is apparent that all originally had similar facade materials, stoops leading to parlor story entrances with wood and glass double doors, windows with one-over–one wood-framed double-hung sash, and identical pressed metal cornices with modillions. The houses vary in their surface treatments at the basement and parlor stories, ornately carved door surrounds, and decorative fascias below the roofline cornices.

The type “C” house (Nos. 338) has no projecting oriel. The parlor story entrance surround is located below a carved cherub in relief. To the east of the entrance is a slightly projecting two-window bay at the basement and parlor stories, faced in rusticated and banded masonry and surmounted by a carved frieze and stone balustrade. The windows of the second and third stories have a single two story enframement containing a decorative spandrel panel. There are three windows at the fourth story.

Historic District: Riverside Drive- West End HD

Alterations: This house has one-over-one aluminum replacement sash in the windows at the basement, parlor and fourth stories.