74 Riverside Drive

74 Riverside Drive

Date: 1898-99

NB Number: NB 413-98

Type:  Townhouse

Architect:  True, Clarence

Developer/Owner/Builder: Riverside Building Co. (Clarence True)

NYC Landmarks Designation:  Historic District

Landmark Designation Report: Riverside Drive- West 80^th-81^st Street Historic District

National Register Designation: N/A

Primary Style:  Elizabethan Renaissance Revival

Primary Facade:   Orange Roman Brick with limestone detail

Stories: Four-and-one-half

Window Type/Material: Round-arched; segmental-arched with Gibbs surrounds; windows with key enframements

Stoop Type: projecting rectangular entry pavilion with entablature/parapet

Roof Type/Material: pitched; tile; Dutch gable dormer with two round-arched windows
with Gibbs surrounds and blind oculus with shield; stepped end walls
with chimneys.

Historic District: Riverside Drive - West 80th - 81st Street HD

Alterations: Garage door installed at ground floor with alterations to
original entrance and windows (northernmost window converted to entrance,
original entrance converted to window, other window shortened), c.198-70;
wrought-iron grilles removed; stoop removed and most of wrought-iron fence
removed; one-over-one wood sash windows replaced by multi-pane wood sash
(except second floor); roof tiles and north chimney covered with tar; metal
grilles added to dormer windows.