310 West 89th Street
310 West 89th Street
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Date:Â 1887-89
NB Number:Â NB 1566-1887
Type: Â Rowhouse
Architect: Â Taft, Joseph H.
Developer/Owner/Builder:Â Squier & Whipple
NYC Landmarks Designation:Â Historic District
Landmark Designation Report:Â Â Riverside Drive- West End Historic District
National Register Designation:Â N/A
Primary Style: Â Flemish Revival
Primary Facade: Â Â Brownstone
Stories:Â 4 and basement
Window Type/Material:Â See detail
Roof Type/Material:Â Pitched/Slate
Structure: These two houses of four stories plus basements have brownstone fronts. Perceived as a pair, these houses are essentially mirror images of one another. Both buildings are two bays wide, with projecting curved bays rising up to the third story (the eastern bay of No. 308 and the western bay of No. 310). No. 310 retains its stone balustrade atop the bowed bay. The houses’ flush bays are adjacent and feature shallow balconies with wrought iron railings below the third story windows. The slate tiled roofs are sharply pitched. Each building has a large dormer with three windows and an ogee arched metal gable above the bowed bay; a smaller single-window dormer with a metal gable is placed above the flush bay. No. 308 retains the original masonry transom bars in the upper three stories. The original windows probably had single-pane pivoting wood-framed sash below transoms which still exist at the second story of No. 308. Both houses have the original basement grilles.
Historic District: Riverside Drive- West End HD
Alterations: The stoop was removed in 1971 and a basement entranceway created which is flanked by two light fixtures; the parlor story opening has been retained. The windows all have aluminum replacement sash. There are no solid transom bars in the upper three stories, as found at No. 308. The stringcourse above the parlor story and the balustrade above the projecting bay have been removed. The building is painted brown and the large pressed metal dormer gable and the smaller dormer are painted black. The parlor and third story wrought iron balcony rails are not original. 1971: Alt 1141-1971 [Source: Alteration Application] Stoop was removed and building converted from a rooming house to apartments: Engineer — Yeshayahu Eshkar Owner – Herman Stamm
History: Built in 1887-89, these houses are survivors of a row of ten houses designed by Joseph H. Taft and probably built for the major West Side developer, W.E.D. Stokes, although the owners of record are listed as Squier & Whipple. Stokes was responsible for many rows west of Broadway and north of 81st Street, although he frequently had others file his applications at the Department of Buildings. Taft was Stokes’s architect between 1887 and 1890. Squier & Whipple were also noted West Side developers, although this is their only recorded project in the district. The row originally wrapped around the corner of West 89th Street and West End Avenue. Nos. 302 and 306 West 89th Street and 591-599 West End Avenue were demolished in 1922 and 1924 for the erection of three apartment buildings.