340 West 88th Street
340 West 88th Street
Date: 1893-94
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: AABCBAA
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: Unknown
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 “B” houses (Nos. 336 and 340) each have a three-sided two-story oriel at the second and third stories, flanked by attached corbelled colonnettes with carved faces at the bosses and surmounted by a stone balustrade. At No. 336 a box stoop leads to the parlor story entrance set in an arched surround with a carved head in the tympanum. The parlor stories are faced in banded ashlar, and the basements are faced in coursed ashlar. At the fourth story of each house are two windows with elaborate molded terra-cotta surrounds below decorative shields; this is the only house type without a fascia below the cornice.
Historic District: Riverside Drive- West End HD
Alterations: The stoop was removed in 1962 and an entranceway created in the basement, with a light fixture-above the aluminum and glass door. The original parlor story entrance has been replaced by a window. The areaway wall has been removed and the building has been recently cleaned. 1962: Alt 1176-1962 [Source: Alteration Application) The stoop was removed when the building was converted from three apartments to ten apartments and three furnished rooms. Engineer — Maurice Hedaya owner — 340 W. 88th Street Corporation
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