36 Riverside Drive

36 Riverside Drive

Date: 1888-1889

NB Number: NB 1135-1888

Block: 1185

Lot: 45

Type:  Rowhouse

Architect:  Lamb & Rich

Developer/Owner/Builder: C & G Lowther

NYC Landmarks Designation:  Historic District

Landmark Designation Report: West End – Collegiate Historic District

National Register Designation: N/A

Primary Style:  Renaissance Revival and Romanesque Revival

Primary Facade:   Limestone

Stories: 4

Elements: Four-story rowhouse with basement and mansard roof; rock-faced limestone at basement and part of first and second floors, smooth limestone elsewhere; round, full-width bay at second and third floors, originally terminating above the second floor with a pierced stone parapet, and paired third floor round-arched windows; original third floor included a heavy bracketed balcony; one-over-one wood sash windows; fourth floor paired windows separated by a column; bracketed cornice supporting mansard roof with two conical-roof dormers; stepped party wall; ridgecap.

Window Type/Material: round, full-width bay at second and third floors, originally terminating above the second floor with a pierced stone parapet, and paired third floor round-arched windows; original third floor included a heavy bracketed balcony; one-over-one wood sash windows; fourth floor paired windows separated by a column.

Basement Type: rock-faced limestone at basement

Roof Type/Material: bracketed cornice supporting mansard roof with two conical-roofed dormers; stepped party wall; ridgecap.

Structure: rock-faced limestone at basement and part of first and second floors, smooth limestone elsewhere

Historic District: West End-Collegiate HD Extension

History: Built as one of an ensemble of four houses (Nos. 35-38), two of which have been demolished.

References: New York City, Department of Buildings, Manhattan, Plans, Permits and Dockets; Landau, Sarah Bradford. “The Row Houses of New York’s West Side,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. 34, (March 1975), 19-36.

Alterations: Round bay extended through third floor, includes two one-over-one wood sash windows and dentilled sub-cornice above to match subcornice above second floor; iron pipe railing installed above bay; roof tiles removed and resurfaced with asphalt shingles; stoop removed and entry relocated to basement; original recessed entry at left of first floor angled bay extended out to front plane of building and large casement window installed; arched hood over original entry removed; transom bars removed from two remaining original first floor window openings; basement level openings altered and new doors and wrought-iron grilles installed; storm windows added at fourth floor and attic; entry lamps added.