347 West 87th Street
347 West 87th Street
Date: 1895-96
NB Number: NB 1884-1895
Type: Rowhouse
Architect: Welch, Alexander M.
Developer/Owner/Builder: W W & TM Hall
Row Configuration: ABCDED
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: Brownstone and Red Brick
Stories: 4 stories with basement
Window Type/Material: Double-hung/Wod
Basement Type: Raised
Stoop Type: Tall stoop
Structure: Masonry bearing walls; This raw is composed of four four-story houses above raised basements flanked to the east by two five-story houses with low stoops fronting on American basements which serve as an end pavilion to the row (the other two house pavilion on the western end of the row has been demolished). All of the houses are twenty feet wide, except for No. 339 which is eighteen feet wide. The stooped houses are red brick with brownstone trim and have coursed stone basements and rusticated first stories and three arched windows at the fourth story, and share a continuous modillioned cornice. The American basement houses are brownstone-fronted, and share a modillioned cornice above the fourth story and a narrow cornice at the roofline. There are two similar house types used in the pavilion and three types among the high-stooped houses of the row. These house types are arranged from east to west within the row to create an ABCDED pattern. The original door type has glazed two-pane wood-framed double panels (No. 347 has wrought-iron grilles at the door and transom), and the windows were originally double-hung wood framed sash which curved in the oriels. The type “C” house (No. 343) has a tall stoop.and is distinguished by a curved three-window oriel with transoms at the second story. There are two
windows at the third story.
The type “E” house (No. 347) has a tall stoop and is distinguished by a two story three-bay stone surround at the second and third stories which is slightly recessed from the facade of the house.
Selected References: New York City Department of Taxes Photograph Collection, Municipal Archives and Record Collection, E 1296; I 2437.30. New York Public Library, Photographic Views of New York City 1870’s-1970’s from the Collections of the New York Public Library
(Ann Arbor, Mich., 1981), microfiche nos. 0617 C1.
Historic District: Riverside Drive- West End HD
Alterations: The windows above the basement story all have exterior storm ,sash and there are light fixtures installed at each side of the door.