323 West 76th Street

323 West 76th Street

Date: 1891-92

NB Number: NB 574-91

Block: 1185

Lot: 56

Type:  Rowhouse

Architect:  Mott, Charles T.

Developer/Owner/Builder: William Jacob and Reuben Skinner

NYC Landmarks Designation:  Historic District

Landmark Designation Report: West End – Collegiate Historic District

National Register Designation: N/A

Primary Style:  Renaissance Revival

Primary Facade:   Brownstone, Metal, Pressed Metal, rock-faced brownstone, Roman Brick, Stone, Terra Cotta, and Wrought Iron

Stories: 4 with basement

Elements:  Four-story rowhouse with basement; rock-faced brownstone rusticated basement; smooth brownstone first floor with bolection molding enframement; Roman brick upper stories; high stone stoop with solid railings, carved coping, newels, and panels; single leaf wood and plate glass entry door; shallow curved bowfront oriel at second and third stories terminating in a fourth-story balcony and porch in antis; chevron patterned brick outlines the upper floors, windows, oriel and porch; terra-cotta balcony railing with Gothic style pinwheel tracery panels; fourth-story porch columns with foliated cushion capitals in terra-cotta; pressed metal cornice with elongated scrolled brackets; wrought-iron window grilles at basement.

Historic District: West End - Collegiate HD

Alterations: White metal one-over-one window sash replacements include three sashes modified to accommodate air conditioning units; wrought-iron railings added to balcony railing; wrought-iron areaway fence installed.

History: Built as a row of five houses (Nos. 323-331). As designed No. 323 was a mirror image of No. 331. Sold to Clara S. Stearns on September 30, 1898. She owned the house until 1922.

References: New York City, Department of Buildings, Manhattan, Plans, Permits and Dockets.