83 Riverside Drive

83 Riverside Drive

Date: 1897-98

NB Number: NB 401-97

Type:  Townhouse

Architect:  True, Clarence

Developer/Owner/Builder: Clarence True

NYC Landmarks Designation:  Historic District

Landmark Designation Report: Riverside Drive- West 80^th-81^st Street Historic District

National Register Designation: N/A

Primary Style:  Elizabethan Renaissance Revival

Primary Facade:   Limestone

Stories: Four-and-one-half

Window Type/Material: One-over-one wood sash windows;  round-arched window with wrought-iron grill; windows with keyed enframements with decorative sill panels on second floor; round-arched windows with keyed pilasters and drip moldings
with keystones; parapet at top of bow; Sill course om fourth floor.

Stoop Type: Low stoop with wing walls;  projecting rectangular pavilion with recessed round arched entry with decorative reveals, molded surround with keystone, quoins, molded cornice and double-leaf wrought-iron and glass outer doors

Roof Type: Pitched; tile; stepped end walls with chimneys; dormer (altered) with cartouche

Historic District: Riverside Drive - West 80th - 81st Street HD

Alterations: Cornice removed; complex dormer mostly stripped and configuration changed; original roof tiles replaced by newer tiles.

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