DESIGNATION REPORT Park Terrace West – West 217th Street Historic District Landmarks Preservation Designation Report Designation List 511 Commission Park Terrace West – West 217th LP-2621 Street Historic District December 11, 2018

ESSAY RESEARCHED AND WRITTEN BY Theresa C. Noonan and Marianne Hurley BUILDING PROFILES Marianne Hurley ARCHITECTS’ APPENDIX COMPLIED BY Marianne Hurley EDITED BY Kate Lemos McHale PHOTOGRAPHS BY Sarah Moses, Marianne Hurley, Theresa C. Noonan COMMISSIONERS Sarah Carroll, Chair Frederick Bland, Vice Chair Diana Chapin Wellington Chen Michael Devonshire Michael Goldblum John Gustafsson Anne Holford-Smith Jeanne Lutfy Adi Shamir-Baron Kim Vauss LANDMARKS PRESERVATION COMMISSION Lisa Kersavage, Director of Special Projects and Strategic Planning Mark Silberman, General Counsel Kate Lemos McHale, Director of Research Cory Herrala, Acting Director of Preservation Landmarks Preservation Designation Report Designation List 511 Commission Park Terrace West – West 217th LP-2621 Street Historic District December 11, 2018

DESIGNATION REPORT Park Terrace West – West 217th Street Historic District LOCATION Borough of Manhattan LANDMARK TYPE Historic District SIGNIFICANCE The Park Terrace West – West 217th Street Historic District is a significant enclave of residential architecture with a special character unusual in Manhattan, consisting of freestanding and semi-detached Tudor Revival and Colonial Revival Style houses designed between 1920 and 1935. Landmarks Preservation Designation Report Designation List 511 Commission Park Terrace West – West 217th LP-2621 Street Historic District December 11, 2018

Table of Contents Park Terrace West – West 217th Street Historic District 5 Park Terrace West-West 217th Street Historic District Map 6 Public Testimony and Boundary Description 7 Summary 8 The Historical and Architectural Development of Park Terace West – West 217th Street Historic District 21 Findings and Designation 22 Illustrations 27 Building Descriptions Park Terrace West 28 West Side (odd numbers) 37 East Side (even numbers) West 217th Street 40 North Side (odd numbers) 53 Architects Appendix Landmarks Preservation Designation Report Designation List 511 Commission Park Terrace West – West LP-2621 217th Street Historic District December 11, 2018

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Park Terrace West-West 217th Boundary Description Street Historic District The proposed Park Terrace West-West 217th Street Designation List 511 Historic District consists of the property bounded by LP-2621 a line beginning on the southwest corner of 91 Park Terrace West, Block 2243, Lot 385, extending Calendared: September 25, 2018 northerly along the western property lines of 91 to 97 Public Hearing: November 20, 2018 Park Terrace West, then extending northerly to the south curbline of West 218th Street, extending On November 20, 2018, the Landmarks Preservation easterly along West 218th Street, to the western Commission held a public hearing on the proposed curbline of Park Terrace West, then extending designation of the Park Terrace West-West 217th southerly along the western curbline of Park Terrace Street Historic District (Public Hearing Item No. 1). West to 93 Park Terrace West, then easterly across The hearing had been duly advertised in accordance Park Terrace West, along the northern property line with the provisions of the law. Eight people spoke in of 96 Park Terrace West, and along the northern favor of the designation as proposed, including property lines of 539 to 527 West 217th Street, then representatives of Manhattan Community Board 12, extending southerly along the eastern property line of the New York Landmarks Conservancy, the Historic 527 West 217th Street, then to the northern curbline Districts Council, Park Terrace Block Association, of West 217th Street, then extending westerly along several

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