5 West 73rd Street

5 West 73rd Street

Date: 1902-1903

NB: 699-1903

Type:  Townhouse

Architect:  Welch, Smith & Provot

Developer/Owner/Builder: William  W Hall & Thomas M Hall

NYC Landmarks Designation:  Historic District

Landmark Designation Report: Central Park West- 73rd-74th Street Historic District; Upper West Side/Central Park West Historic District

National Register Designation: N/A

Primary Style:  Beaux-Arts

Primary Facade:   Limestone and Red Brick

Stories: 5

Window Type/Material: See Structure

Basement Type: English

Structure: No. 3-11. These five brick townhouses were built as a row by the prominent architectural firm Welch, Smith I Provot, In 1902-1903. Built on speculation, the houses were originally owned by William W. and Thomas H. Hall, builder-developers who were responsible for many residences In the city, Like the other rows In the Historic District, certain unifying features tie the Individual houses together as a group. These features Include limestone ground floors,with wrought Iron area way railings, the alignment of each of the stories, and common cornice and roof lines. All of the buildings are five stories In height with English basements. Although the houses reflect the fashionable Beaux-Arts style at their ground stories, each Is Individualized at the upper stories by a variety of classically Inspired ornaments and details, Nos. 7,9. and II, for example, although of similar composition, are differentiated by ornamental details. A variety of color and texture In the brickwork of this row echoes the treatment found In the Hardenbergh row.

This elegant red brick and limestone townhouse is distinguished by its central bay with triple windows, in contrast to the fenestration of the rest of the row, and by a variety of French Beaux-Arts details.The ornamented keystone of the central doorway and the elongated keystones of the flanking square headed windows support a wide band course above the ground story. Above this, limestone quoins and keyed window trim create brick panels flanking the windows at the second, third, and fourth stories. The keynote of the facade is the recessed two story panel of limestone which unites the triple windows of the second and third stories under a broad segmental arch, A fancifully ornamented keystone, flanked by scrolls, surmounts this arch and extends up to a band course which serves as the silt for the fourth-story triple windows. Above a modillioned cornice, In the copper mansard roof, this fine facade is crowned by a Palladlan dormer window with Doric pilasters crowned by a triangular pediment. Shortly after this building was completed, W.W. and T.M. Hall sold It to Louis Strasburger, who was connected with the diamond business.

Historic District: Central Park West - West 73rd-74th Streets HD