331 West 76th Street

331 West 76th Street

Date: 1891-92

NB Number: NB 574-91

Block: 1185

Lot: 52

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

Stories: 4 with basement

Elements:  No. 331 was designed as a mirror image of No. 323 West 76th Street, but has had a number of alterations.

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: Stoop removed; new entry installed at basement level; terra-cotta balcony railing at fourth floor removed and railing filled in with masonry; two-over-two horizontal muntin wood sash installed, with center sash on floors two, three, and four reduced in size to accommodate air conditioners.

History: Built as a row of five houses (Nos. 323-331). As designed, No. 331 was a mirror image of No. 323.

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