75 Riverside Drive
Date: 1898-99
NB Number: NB 413-98
Type: Townhouse
Architect: True, Clarence
Developer/Owner/Builder: Riverside Building Co. (Clarence True
NYC Landmarks Designation: Historic District
Landmark Designation Report: Riverside Drive- West 80th-81st Street Historic District
National Register Designation: N/A
Primary Style: Elizabethan Renaissance Revival
Primary Facade: Brownstone; quoins
Stories: Four-and-one-half
Window Type/Material: one-over-one wood sash windows; round-arched windows with wrought-iron grilles
Roof Type/Material: pitched; (about two-thirds) tile; stepped end walls with chimneys; two dormers with composite order pilasters, interrupted entablatures, and round-arched pediments with keystones and cartouches.
Historic District: Riverside Drive - West 80th - 81st Street HD
Alterations: Central recessed round-arched entry converted to window, stoop removed, new entrance added to south with metal and glass door and brick stoop, and decorative entablature/ parapet stripped and modified (c. late 1960s); decorative parapet at top of bow stripped and iron railing installed; aluminum storms added to fourth floor windows; about one-third of roof tiles removed; dormer finials removed; upper section of north chimney altered; air conditioner pierces ground floor facade wall.