356 West End Avenue

356 West End Avenue

Date: 1891-92

NB Number: NB 1320-91

Block: 1168

Lot: 62

Type:  Rowhouse

Architect:  True, Clarence

Developer/Owner/Builder: Francis M. Jenks

NYC Landmarks Designation:  Historic District

Landmark Designation Report: West End – Collegiate Historic District

National Register Designation: N/A

Primary Style:  Eclectic with references to Romanesque and Renaissance Revivals

Primary Facade:   Limestone and rock-faced limestone

Stories: 3 with basement

Elements: As designed, No. 356 was identical to No. 354 except for a variation in the carving of the decorative panel above door and the use of a carved winged animal below third floor window.

354 – As designed, No. 354 was identical to No. 352 except for variation in design of dormer and decorative panel above door; No. 354 has a carved bat below third floor window.

352 – Three-story limestone rowhouse with basement and mansard roof; rock-faced base; one-over-one wood sash windows; angled bay at right rises three stories; high stoop; double-leaf, wood and plate glass entry doors with rectangular transom; decorative carved panel above entrance flanked by stylized engaged colonnettes with finials; carved owl below third story window; balustrade at top of bay; dormer with decorative carving set within tile mansard roof with stepped, coped party walls and chimneys and ridgecap; wrought-iron window grilles at basement; cast-iron handrails at stoop.

Historic District: West End - Collegiate HD

Alterations: Tile roof resurfaced with asphalt shingles; new single-leaf entry door installed; storm windows added throughout; new wrought-iron stoop railings installed.

History: Built, as ones of a group; of seven houses, (Nos.. 350-3-56 West End Avenue and Nos. 270-274 West 77th Street).
Sold to Henry Barstow Platt on April 20, 1893, and owned by his family until 1903. Platt, a Yale graduate who was the son of a U.S. Senator, lived at 303 West 76th Street. He was the superintendent of several Pennsylvania coal properties and of the U.S. Express Co.

References: New York City, Department of Buildings, Manhattan, Plans, Permits and Dockets. Who’s Who, 1909.