343 West 87th Street

343 West 87th Street

Date: 1895-96

NB Number: NB 1884-1895

Type:  Rowhouse

Architect:  Welch, Alexander M.

Developer/Owner/Builder: W W & T M Hall

Row Configuration: ABCDED

NYC Landmarks Designation:  Historic District

Landmark Designation Report: Riverside Drive- West End Historic District

National Register Designation: N/A

Primary Style:  Renaissance Revival

Primary Facade:   Brownstone and Red Brick

Stories: 4 with basement

Window Type/Material: Double-hung/Wood

Basement Type: Raised

Stoop Type: Low

Structure: Masonry bearing walls; This raw is composed of four four-story houses above raised basements flanked to the east by two five-story houses with low stoops fronting on American basements which serve as an end pavilion to the row (the other two house pavilion on the western end of the row has been demolished). All of the houses are twenty feet wide, except for No. 339 which is eighteen feet wide. The stooped houses are red brick with brownstone trim and have coursed stone basements and rusticated first stories and three arched windows at the fourth story, and share a continuous modillioned cornice. The American basement houses are brownstone-fronted, and share a modillioned  cornice above the fourth story and a narrow cornice at the roofline. There are two similar house types used in the pavilion and three types among the high-stooped houses of the row. These house types are arranged from east to west within the row to create an ABCDED pattern. The original door type has glazed two-pane wood-framed double panels (No. 347 has wrought-iron grilles at the door and transom), and the windows were originally double-hung wood framed sash which curved in the oriels. The type “C” house (No. 343) has a tall stoop.and is distinguished by a curved three-window oriel with transoms at the second story. There are two
windows at the third story.

Historic District: Riverside Drive- West End HD

Alterations:  The stoop was removed, possibly in 1939, and a basement entranceway created which has two light fixtures flanking the door. The areaway has been removed. 1939: Alt 2788-1939 [Source: Alteration Application The house was converted from a single-family dwelling to ten apartments.

Selected References: New York City Department of Taxes Photograph Collection, Municipal Archive and Record Collection, E 1296; I 2437.30.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. 0617 C1.