Architect
Upper West Side residential invention with a strong sense of block, frontage, and domestic variety.
Clarence True's Upper West Side houses include an Italian Renaissance group on West 85th Street and an Elizabethan Revival house on West 83rd Street. Compare their facades and proportions across these nearby blocks.
2 building histories
Residential · 1892
316 West 85th Street, New York, NY
Situated on the south side of West 85th Street between West End Avenue and Riverside Drive, the distinctive three-story 316 West 85th Street House — one house in a row of six houses — was planned by the noted architect...
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332 West 83rd Street, New York, NY
The 332 West 83rd Street House, designed by well-known architect and developer Clarence F. True, was built on speculation in 1898-99 as one house of a picturesque group of six houses on the southeast corner of Riverside...
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