318 West 90th Street
318 West 90th Street
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Date:Â 1892-93
NB Number:Â NB 416-1892
Type: Â Rowhouse
Architect: Â True, Clarence
Developer/Owner/Builder:Â Theodore A Squier
NYC Landmarks Designation:Â Historic District
Landmark Designation Report:Â Â Â Riverside Drive- West End Historic District
National Register Designation:Â N/A
Primary Style: Â Elizabethan Renaissance Revival
Primary Facade: Â Â Brownstone
Stories:Â 4
Window Type/Material:Â One-over-one double-hung/Wood
Basement Type:Â Raised
Stoop Type:Â placeholder
Roof Type: Pitched
Structure:  These three, four story rowhouses on raised basements are sixteen-and-a-half and seventeen feet wide and fronted in smooth and rock-faced brownstone ashlar. There are no repeated house types in this raw, but a unified appearance is achieved through the use of common cornice, roof, and stringcourse lines, similar facade materials, pitched roofs with gabled dormers, stoops leading to arched parlor story entrances, and wrought-iron grilles in the basement windows. All of the houses originally had hexagonal slate tile roofs ( as seen at Nos. 314 and 316), one-over-one double-hung wood-framed sash windows, and wood and glass doors ( as seen at No. 316).
This house is distinguished by a full height curved projecting bay capped by a conical roof with metal finial on the western side of the facade. There is a small single window dormer with a hood-like roof above the flush eastern bay. The windows are all square-headed.
Historic District: Riverside Drive- West End HD
Alterations: The basement story has been painted and an iron fence added to the areaway wall. The second, third, and fourth story windows have white one-over-one aluminum replacement sash. The roof has been resurfaced with asphalt shingles. There are two light fixtures above the replacement door in the parlor story entrance, and one light above the basement entrance.
History: Built in 1892 for Theodore A. Squier, a rowhouse developer active in this district, these houses were designed by Clarence True, a New York architect notable for his rowhouse designs. True worked for Squier designing several rows in this district. Selected References: New York City Department of Taxes Photograph Collection, Municipal Archives and Record Collection, E 1295. New York Public Library, Photographic Views of New York City 1870’s-1970’s from the Collections of the New York Public Library (Ann Arbor, Mich., 1981), microfiche nos. 0620 B3. Clarence True, Designs of 141 Dwelling Houses Built on the West Side (New York, c. 1893), n.p.