340 West End Avenue

340 West End Avenue

NB Number: NB 140-89 (Alt. 1198-41)

Type:  Rowhouse

Architect:  Angell, Edward L.

Developer/Owner/Builder: Dore Lyon

NYC Landmarks Designation:  Historic District

Landmark Designation Report: West End – Collegiate Historic District

National Register Designation: N/A

Primary Style:  Romanesque Revival

Primary Facade:   Brick, Brownstone, and Stone

Stories: 4 with basement

Elements: Four-story rowhouse with basement; brick and brownstone facing; rock-faced base; West End Avenue facade of stone with two-story bowed front; first floor windows with Romanesque colonnettes and transoms; checker pattern parapet above second floor; top story gable with three round-arched windows with arched molding between two-story colonnettes with finials; asymmetrical brick 76th  Street facade with segmental basement fenestration, first floor round-arched windows with Romanesque colonnettes, second story oriel window (added 1892 by architect Charles Israels) set on decorative carved base and flanked by tall, stylized,engaged colonnettes; irregular roofline of dormer and gables with finials and round-arched windows set within tile mansard roof; decorative wrought-iron areaway railing.

Historic District: West End - Collegiate HD

Alterations: Stoop removed 1941; facade painted; rear two-story rooftop addition constructed in 1910 and partly removed in 1941; storm
windows added; first floor transoms sealed with wood; all other windows appear to have once had transom bars, which have been removed, with new one-over-one wood sash installed; storm windows added at third and fourth floors.

History: Built as one of a row of five houses (Nos. 340-348).
Sold to Lucius Biglow on Feb. 23, 1894, and owned by his family until 1910. Biglow was the founder of Biglow and Maig Co., music publishers, as well as a realtor and a salt entrepreneur. Building converted to apartments in 1941.

References: New York City, Department of Buildings, Manhattan, Plans, Permits and Dockets.
Who’s Who, 1907.