Carter's Review

This brown-brick apartment building at 276 Riverside Drive on the southeast corner at 100^th Street has one of the most impressive entrances on the Upper West Side.

The building was erected in 1910 and was designed by W. K. Rouse and L. A. Goldstone, whose other prominent apartment buildings included 1107 Fifth Avenue, Haroldon Court, Le Bourgogne, 25 Fifth Avenue, Sender Jarmulowsky's Bank Building, 260 Park Avenue South, and 760 Park Avenue.

The 12-story building has 97 rental apartments.  It is known as the Wendolyn and 322 West 100th Street.

Bottom Line

A handsome pre-war building across from the Firemen’s Memorial with a very impressive entrance.

Description

The building has a two-step-up entrance with an arched doorway and a three-story limestone base with rustication on the second and third stories.

The entrance surround includes two fluted and banded two-story-high columns on each side of the entrance with a balustrade between them, all beneath a bandcourse with a raised decorative element.

The building has a center court.

It has some protruding air-conditioners.

There is a stringcourse above the third and ninth floors and a bandcourse above the 10^th floor with decorative elements between the windows.

There are balconies on the fifth and eighth floors.

The building was remodeled on the interior in 1939 to subdivide many of the larger apartments of 10- to 12 rooms.

Amenities

The building has a doorman and a live-in superintendent and is pet-friendly.

Apartments

Apartment 4H is a two-bedroom unit with a 15-foot-wide entrance foyer next to a 9-foot-long kitchen and it leads at an angled to the 20-foot-long living room.

Apartment 3D is a two-bedroom unit with a 14-foot-long entry foyer that leads to a 21-foot-long living room, a 14-foot-long dining room and a 13-foot-long windowed kitchen.

Apartment 12E is a two-bedroom unit with an 11-foot-long foyer that leads to a 24-foot-long living room next to a 13-foot-long, slightly angled dining room adjacent to a 13-foot-long kitchen.

Apartment 4F is a one-bedroom unit with a 15-foot-wide entry foyer that leads to a 22-foot-long living room and a 9-foot-long kitchen.

Location

The building is across Riverside Drive from the handsome Firemen’s Memorial that was erected in 1913 to honor fallen “soldiers in a war the never ends.  According to “Upper West Side Story,” Peter Salwen noted that in 1927 the ASPCA “added a second tablet in memory of the firehouses of an already bygone era.”  The monument was designed by H. Van Buren Magonigle and sculptor Attilio Piccirilli, “the duo whose Maine Memorial – also unveiled in 1913 – stands at Columbus Circle.