40 Riverside Drive

40 Riverside Drive

NB Number: NB 1100-96 (Alt. 1655-68)

Type:  Townhouse

Architect:  True, Clarence

Developer/Owner/Builder: Clarence True

NYC Landmarks Designation:  Historic District

Landmark Designation Report: West End – Collegiate Historic District

National Register Designation: N/A

Primary Style:  Elizabethan Renaissance Revival

Primary Facade:   Brick, Limestone, and Roman Brick

Stories: 4 1/2 with basement

Elements: Four-and-one-half-story town house, with basement; Roman brick facade with limestone base and trim; round corner turret bay flanked by two pavilions with simple gables and quoins, joined on the east by another pavilion with two-story decorated oriel; one-over-one wood sash windows (curved sash at turret); round-arched entry, with arched double doors; low stone stoop flanked by pilasters which support elongated, carved entablature,which in turn supports triple round-arched windows with pilasters and entablature; ground level round-arched windows; second story windows with entablatures; all windows with, keyed enframements; fourth story of turret and east pavilion windows with decorative pilasters, cornice with copper gutter and carved parapet; gable windows with pediments and ornamental detailing; east pavilion dormer with pediment, pilasters, and scrolls set into mansard roof; wrought-iron grille on door and bowed grilles on ground level windows; wrought-iron areaway fence.

Historic District: West End - Collegiate HD

Alterations: Tiles removed and roof resurfaced; iron railing added to turret; fire escape removed, both facades cleaned: holes on West 76th Street facade from fire escape anchors; interior storm windows added throughout; stoop painted; slightly later decorative metal entrance canopy removed.

History: Built as one of a group of three houses (Nos. 40-41 Riverside Drive and 337 West 76th Street). Sold to W. L. Brown on April 14, 1899, and owned by the family until 1919. Once the residence of artist Marc Chagall in the 1940s. Converted to Riverside School in 1968.

References: New York City, Department of Buildings, Manhattan, Plans, Permits and Dockets.

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