75 Riverside Drive

75 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:   Brownstone; quoins

Stories: Four-and-one-half

Window Type/Material:  one-over-one wood sash windows;  round-arched windows with wrought-iron grilles

Roof Type/Material: pitched; (about two-thirds) tile; stepped end walls with chimneys; two dormers with composite order pilasters, interrupted entablatures, and round-arched pediments with keystones and cartouches.

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

Alterations: Central recessed round-arched entry converted to window, stoop removed, new entrance added to south with metal and glass door and brick stoop, and decorative entablature/ parapet stripped and modified (c. late 1960s); decorative parapet at top of bow stripped and iron railing installed; aluminum storms added to fourth floor windows; about one-third of roof tiles removed; dormer finials removed; upper section of north chimney altered; air conditioner pierces ground floor facade wall.