41 Riverside Drive

41 Riverside Drive

NB Number: NB 1100-96

Block: 1185

Lot: 48

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:   Limestone

Stories: 4 with basement

Elements: Four-story townhouse with basement and mansard roof; limestone facade; three-Story angled bay at left; ground level round-arched entry with round-arched door with glass panel; low stoop and columned portico supporting decorative parapet/balcony; round-arched windows and servants’ entrance and small oval windows at first floor; second floor windows with entablatures; carved parapet at top of bay; fourth floor windows with pediments, pilasters, entablature, and scrolls; coped party walls with chimneys; wrought-iron grilles at ground floor windows.

Historic District: West End - Collegiate HD

Alterations: Tiles removed and roof resurfaced with asphalt shingles; one-over-one aluminum windows installed throughout; stairs at stoop replaced door bell and’ intercom box added at entry

History: Built as one of a group of three houses (Nos. 40-41 Riverside Drive and No. 337 West 76th Street).
Sold to Frederick Humphreys on June 12, 1899, and owned by his family until 1963. Humphreys was a celebrated Army aviator, brigadier general, and National Guard Commander, as well as president of the Humphrey’s Homeopathic Medicine Co.

References: New York City, Department of Buildings, Manhattan, Plans, Permits and Dockets.
New York Times, Jan. 21, 1941, 21:3.