85 Riverside Drive

85 Riverside Drive

Date: 1897-98

NB Number: NB 583-97

Type:  Townhouse

Architect:  True, Clarence

Developer/Owner/Builder: 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:  Limestone and tan Roman Brick

Stories: Four-and-one-half

Window Type/Material: Round-arched windows and service entrance with wrought-iron grilles and gate on first floor;  round-arched windows with Gibbs surrounds on fourth floor.

Cornice: Dentils.

Stoop Type: Low stoop with wing walls;  recessed round-arched molded entry with decorative reveals and cartouche.

Roof Type/Material: pitched; (partially) tile;, stepped end walls with chimneys; two complex dormers with pilasters and inwardly curved pediments with shields surmounted by smaller triangular pediments.

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

Alterations: Entry configuration changed and metal and glass door installed; one-over-one wood sash windows replaced by mutli-pane windows (first floor, leaded glass; second floor, anodized aluminum; third floor, wood sash; fourth floor, round-arched with sidelights and transom); one window added to second and third floors; about two-thirds of roof tiles removed; grilles added to dormer windows.