7 West 73rd Street

7 West 73rd Street

Date: 1902-1903

NB: 699-1902

Type:  Townhouse

Architect:  Welch, Smith & Provot

Developer/Owner/Builder: William W Hall & Thomas M Hall

NYC Landmarks Designation:  Historic District

Landmark Designation Report: Central Park West- 73rd -74th Street Historic District; Upper West Side/Central Park West Historic District

National Register Designation: N/A

Primary Style:  Beaux-Arts

Primary Facade:   Beige Brick and Limestone

Stories: 5

Window Type/Material: See Structure

Basement Type: English

Roof Type/Material: Mansard/Copper

Structure: No. 3-11. These five brick townhouses were built as a row by the prominent architectural firm Welch, Smith I Provot, In 1902-1903. Built on speculation, the houses were originally owned by William W. and Thomas H. Hall, builder-developers who were responsible for many residences In the city, Like the other rows In the Historic District, certain unifying features tie the Individual houses together as a group. These features Include limestone ground floors,with wrought Iron area way railings, the alignment of each of the stories, and common cornice and roof lines. All of the buildings are five stories In height with English basements. Although the houses reflect the fashionable Beaux-Arts style at their ground stories, each Is Individualized at the upper stories by a variety of classically Inspired ornaments and details, Nos. 7,9. and II, for example, although of similar composition, are differentiated by ornamental details. A variety of color and texture In the brickwork of this row echoes the treatment found In the Hardenbergh row.

No.7. The central house of the row is distinguished by the fine handling of smooth ashlar limestone at the English basement and by tan colored brick, embellished with Interesting decorative patterns at the upper stories. The first story features paired round arched openings,
reflected In the broad band course directly above them. Stubby console brackets with ornamental heads support the horizontal portions of this double arched band course. The splayed flat arches of the second story are of brick and have limestone keystones. Above the brick segmental arched third floor windows with paneled keystones of limestone and above paneled corbels with guttae, the facade is animated by a decorative frieze of brickwork set in a herringbone pattern. A limestone balcony carried on stone brackets has an ornamental wrought iron railing in front of the two square headed windows of the fourth floor. Two decorative courses of toothed brickwork connect the heads of the windows of the fourth floor at impost block level and continue the string courses of the adjacent townhouses to the west. A pair of pedimented dormers in the copper mansard roof, rises above the modillioned roof cornice. This house was purchased from W.W. and T.M. Hall in 1904 by Dennlstoun M. Bell, a lawyer.

Historic District: Central Park West - West 73rd-74th Streets HD