76 Alta Avenue

C.E. Portier House; two story, coursed stone, three bay, Georgian Revival style residence; rectangular plan; salient pedimented central bay with leaded glass fanlight featuring pedimented portico supported on scamozzi columns and entrance with leaded glass sidelights and fanlight; six-over-one paired and tripartite double hung sash windows; hipped roof with wide frieze, modillioned cornice and gabled roof dormers; one story flanking enclosed coursed stone porch with tripartite windows; alterations include 1953 addition of one story, frame, gable roof side ell; modern fire escape.

Significance: Park Hill West (c. 2006), pp. 48-58, identifies this as the 1914 Portier House, a Georgian Revival dwelling cited as one of Park Hill's interpretations of the great Georgian houses of the pre-Revolutionary era.

2 1/2-story, rectilinear, stone building with wood trim; symmetrical main mass; academic Georgian-inspired design with some Federal-inspired trim; projecting central pavilion with original wood door and leaded sidelights and fanlight set beneath pedimented enframement supported by Ionic columns; single 8x1 wood window above entrance; central pavilion crowned by pediment with semicircular window with Colonial Revival sash; tripartite first-story window group to either side of entrance consisting of central 8x1 sash flanked by narrow 2x1 sash; paired 6x1 windows on second story; hip roof with pedimented dormers; cornice with bracketed eaves; large dormer with three windows and stone chimney on east side; west side with pair of pedimented dormers separated by chimney; one-story wing to west with sun porch glazed with triple rectangular windows; stone retaining wall with round arch leading to garden steps.

Alterations: One-story wood extension (1953); fire escape on west side

Feature: Garage; stone one-car garage designed to match house; vehicular entrance in front crowned by wood pediment with semicircular window; triple 6x1 windows on sides.

Feature: Shed; one-story wood shed set on high rubblestone base at northwest corner of property; shutters with pine tree cutouts set between tapered piers; bracketed hip roof; scalloped eaves.

Significance: Park Hill (2002), pp. 742-755, cites the c. 1915 Neo-Georgian stone garage at 1 Rose Lane as an early garage designed to match the style and materials of its associated house.

This is a 2 1/2 story, 3 bay Colonial Revival house with a hipped roof and multiple pedimented dormers. There is a front center bay, 2 1/2 story pedimented projections housing the entrance portico which is flanked by Ionic columns. The doorway has sidelights and fanlight with pediment directly above. There is a modillioned cornice with full entablature. A one story addition included entablature and balustrade.

Feature: Gardens; stone wall