The five-story row house at 249 West End Avenue on Manhattan's Upper West Side stands between two much taller apartment buildings. The Landmarks Preservation Commission's West End-Collegiate Historic District Extension Designation Report, adopted on June 25, 2013, states that Clarence True designed the house at 249 West End Avenue in the Romanesque Revival style in 1892 and 1893, with an American basement plan that lowered the stoop nearly to street level. The report calls it one of the few remaining single-family houses on West End Avenue. The commission's building notes describe it as one of four or five similarly designed houses, while Newyorkitecture counts five. That fit the avenue's first phase. Dolkart's 2009 survey , West End Avenue Survey: A Proposal for Historic District Designation , says the first phase of development, largely from 1885 to 1900, created a street of fine, upper-middle-class, single-family row houses, along with a few larger French flats and several churches and other institutional buildings.
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