Building type
Townhouses, mansions, and apartment buildings show the range of Manhattan's residential architecture.
Compare individual houses with larger apartment buildings such as the Dakota and Apthorp. Look at their entrances, rooflines, and arrangement along the block.
231 building histories
Residential · 1899-1901
1009 5th Avenue, New York, NY
This handsome Fifth Avenue mansion, prominently located at the southeast corner of Eighty-second Street, was built during the years 1899 to 1901. It is one of the few surviving houses which once formed part of an almost...
Read the storyResidential · 1911-12
1025 Park Avenue, New York, NY
The 1025 Park Avenue House was constructed in 1911-12 for the well-known composer of light opera and popular music, Reginald DeKoven and his wife Anna. The house is a rare surviving mansion from the period when Park...
Read the storyResidential · 1898-99
103 Riverside Drive, New York, NY
The 103 Riverside Drive House, originally 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...
Read the storyResidential · 1898-99
104 Riverside Drive, New York, NY
The 104 Riverside Drive House, originally 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...
Read the storyResidential · 1898-99
105 Riverside Drive, New York, NY
The 105 Riverside Drive House, originally 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...
Read the storyResidential · 1898
109 Riverside Drive, New York, NY
The 107-109 Riverside Drive House, originally 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...
Read the storyResidential · 1909-10
11 E 70th Street, New York, NY
The handsome house at 11 East 70th Street was built in 1909-10 and designed in the French Classical manner, one of the prominent styles during this period. The architect, John H. Duncan is best known for his design of...
Read the storyResidential · 1902-03
11 E 90th Street, New York, NY
This elegant residence, built in 1902-03 for M. Louise McAlpin, was designed by the New York City architectural firm of Barney & Chapman. In keeping with their training at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, the...
Read the storyResidential · 1922-23
116 East 80th Street, New York, NY
This residence of elegant simplicity designed in the Federal Style is four stories high, with an English basement. It is built of red brick laid in Flemish bond. The rather austere character of the building is soon...
Read the storyResidential · 1832
116 Sullivan Street, New York, NY
The front of this Federal style house is of red brick, laid up in Flemish bond. The original pitched roof was doubtless of slate but the house was raised two stories in 1872. The present window lintels, with their heavy...
Read the storyResidential · 1863
12 West 129th Street, New York, NY
The house at 12 West 129th Street, erected c.1863 when the village of Harlem was undergoing development as a suburban center, stands as a rare survivor of Harlem's early history, prior to its rapid development as an...
Read the storyResidential · 1860
120 East 92nd Street, New York, NY
This nineteenth century frame house, on a side street, comes as a delightful surprise. Time and change have passed it by, as well as the very similar frame house that adjoins it to the east. It has a front yard with...
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122 East 92nd Street, New York, NY
This mid-nineteenth century frame house, on a side street of New York's upper east side, unchanged by time, comes as a delightful surprise to the passerby. Set back from the street, it retains an ample, well planted...
Read the storyResidential · 1900-01
1261 Madison Avenue, New York, NY
This grand apartment house, built in 1900-01, is a fine example of the French Beaux-Arts style which was popular at that time for large buildings such as this and for single-family dwellings. Gilbert Brown, a...
Read the storyResidential · 1828-29
127 Macdougal Street, New York, NY
The rowhouses at 127, 129 and 131 MacDougal Street in Greenwich Village were constructed c. 1828-29 in the Federal style, characterized by its 2-1/2-story height, Flemish bond brickwork, low stoop with wroughtironwork,...
Read the storyResidential · 1896-97
13 West 54th Street, New York, NY
This handsome town house was built in 1896-97 as one of a pair with No. 15 West 54th Street for William Murray, a prominent businessman from Larchmont, New York. Designed in a Renaissance-inspired style by Henry Janeway...
Read the storyResidential · 1927-28
130 W 30th Street, New York, NY
Designed by the preeminent architect Cass Gilbert, and constructed in 1927-28, the 130 West 30th Street Building was built to accommodate offices, showrooms and manufacturing space. The 18-story structure was a...
Read the storyResidential · 1907-08
130 West 57th Street, New York, NY
Built in 1907-08 to provide living and working facilities for artists, the studio building at 130 West 57th Street is a rare surviving example of this unusual building type, and a reminder of the early twentieth century...
Read the storyResidential · 1834
131 Charles Street, New York, NY
This charming, early Nineteenth Century two-story brick house with peaked roof, delicate dormers and high basement, is one of the few remaining examples of the small comfortable Federal street houses, once so abundant...
Read the storyResidential · 1905-07
135 East 66th Street, New York, NY
This distinguished eleven-story deluxe apartment house reflects the influence of Italian Renaissance palazzo in its two principal elevations facing the street, it is an important expression of luxury apartment house...
Read the storyResidential · 1890-91
1321 Madison Avenue, New York, NY
1321 Madison Avenue, at the northeast corner of 93rd Street, is a most striking Queen Anne style rowhouse, one of an original row of five, built in 1890-91. Real estate developer James v. S. Woolley commissioned the...
Read the storyResidential · 1907
134 East 67th Street, New York, NY
This distinguished apartment house composed in the manner of an imposing Italian Renaissance palazzo was designed as a pendant to the nearly identical adjacent apartment house, already a designated New York City...
Read the storyResidential · 1907-08
140 West 57th Street, New York, NY
Built in 1907-08 to provide living and working facilities for artists, the studio building at 140 West 57th Street is a rare surviving example of this unusual building type, and a reminder of the early twentieth century...
Read the storyResidential · 1830-31
143 Allen Street, New York, NY
The Federal style row house at 143 Allen Street was constructed c. 1830-31 as a speculative investment by George Sutton, a ship captain and counting house merchant. Originally part of a group of six similar residences,...
Read the storyResidential · 1827
145 8th Avenue, New York, NY
These modest rowhouses at 145-147 Eighth Avenue are a pair of highly intact 3 1/2 story Federal style houses constructed 1827 for owner Aaron Dexter, a dry goods merchant, who retained ownership of the property until...
Read the storyResidential · 1886-87
146 East 89th Street, New York, NY
No. 146 East 89th Street is one of six picturesque houses (Nos. 146-156) remaining from an original group of ten. Designed by the notable architectural firm of Hubert, Pirsson & Co. in the Queen Anne style, the row was...
Read the storyResidential · 1909-10
15 E 70th Street, New York, NY
The handsome house at 15 East 70th Street was built in 1909-10 and was designed in the French Classical manner, although it displays elements of Italian Renaissance design at the first and fifth floors. The architect of...
Read the storyResidential · 1927-28
15 E 90th Street, New York, NY
This charming neo-Federal house was built in 1927-28 and designed by architect Mott B. Schmidt. Schmidt had also used this popular style several years earlier in the Sutton Place development.
Read the storyResidential · 1858
152 East 38th Street, New York, NY
Elegance and charm are abundantly evident in the architectural quality of this three-story Federal style brick house. Separated from the street by a spacious forecourt and an inner landscaped garden, this outstanding...
Read the storyResidential · 1861
157 East 78th Street, New York, NY
There is a charm and sparkle in the appearance of this four-story red brick house with painted stone trim at 157 East 78th Street* Standing next to two other similar row houses and sharing a party wall with its easterly...
Read the storyResidential · 1838
159 Charles Street, New York, NY
Constructed around 1838 for merchant Henry J. Wyckoff, 159 Charles Street is significant as a relatively rare surviving residential building of the early period of development of the far western section of Greenwich...
Read the storyResidential · 1861
158 East 78th Street, New York, NY
There is a charm and sparkle in the appearance of this three-story red brick house with painted stone trim at 159 East 78th Street. Standing between two other similar row houses and sharing party walls with its...
Read the storyResidential · 1852-53
160 East 92nd Street, New York, NY
A rare surviving remnant of the early years of the village of Yorkville, the 160 East 92nd Street House (1852-53) is a two-and-a-half-story vernacular clapboard dwelling which displays elements of the Greek Revival and...
Read the storyResidential · 1861
161 East 78th Street, New York, NY
There is a charm and sparkle in the appearance of this three-story red brick house with painted stone trim at 161 East 78th Street. Standing at the eastern end of two other similar row houses and sharing party walls...
Read the storyResidential · 1861
165 East 78th Street, New York, NY
Subdued charm and warm mellowness pervade these three-story red brick houses with painted stone trim at 163 and 165 East 78th Street. Standing next to three other row houses and sharing a party wall with their...
Read the storyResidential · 1864
17 E 128th Street, New York, NY
The 17 East 128th Street House is one of a few surviving frame houses in Harlem which date from the period in the city's history when Harlem was still a rural village and not legally part of the City of New York....
Read the storyResidential · 1909-11
17 E 70th Street, New York, NY
The handsome house at 17 East 70th Street was built in 1909-11 and designed in the French Classical manner, one of the prominent styles during this period. The architect, Arthur C. Jackson was with the prominent New...
Read the storyResidential · 1917-19
17 E 90th Street, New York, NY
his dignified residence, built between 1917 and 1919 and designed by F. Burrall Hoffman, Jr., combines a modified neo-Georgian style with an arcaded loggia in the continental tradition.
Read the storyResidential · 1846
17 West 16th Street, New York, NY
This handsome Greek Revival house, built about 1846 in the once fashionable Union Square neighborhood, is one of a row of nine townhouses, four of which survive. The houses were planned and probably built by Edward S....
Read the storyResidential · 1909-10
19 E 70th Street, New York, NY
This extremely elegant and architecturally distinguished residence was designed by Thornton Chard (1873-1951), a New York architect, in a simplified but sophisticated version of early Italian Renaissance style.
Read the storyResidential · 1846
19 West 16th Street, New York, NY
Located on the north side of West 16th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues, No. 19 West 16th Street is a distinctive Greek Revival rowhouse constructed about 1846, at a time when the Union Square area was developing...
Read the storyResidential · 1833
190 Grand Street, New York, NY
Built c.1833, the rowhouse at 190 Grand Street was built as a grand, late Federal style residence at a time when this neighborhood, now known as Little Italy, was an affluent residential quarter. Evidence indicates that...
Read the storyResidential · 1833
192 Grand Street, New York, NY
Built c.1833, the rowhouse at 192 Grand Street was built as a grand, late Federal style residence at a time when this neighborhood, now known as Little Italy, was an affluent residential quarter. Evidence indicates that...
Read the storyResidential · 1809
2 White Street, New York, NY
Number Two White Street is one of those very rare brick wood houses in New York which still retains its gambrel roof and original dormer windows. Three rectangular second story windows have excellent splayed lintels...
Read the storyResidential · 1834
203 Prince Street, New York, NY
This handsome townhouse at No. 203 Prince Street was built in 1833-34. Its style is transitional from Federal to Greek Revival. The original owner, John P. Haff, listed in the city directories as a leather inspector,...
Read the storyResidential · 1861-65
208 East 78th Street, New York, NY
This charming house at No. 208 is one of a row of six surviving houses (Nos. 208-218) built between 1861 and 1865 as a speculative venture for several Successive developers. As such, they may be seen as representative...
Read the storyResidential · 1918-19
21 E 70th Street, New York, NY
The simple but elegant house at 21 East 70th Street was built in 1918-19 and was designed by William J. Rogers in a sophisticated manner based on modified classical traditions.
Read the storyResidential · 1846
21 West 16th Street, New York, NY
Located on the north side of West 16th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues, No. 21 West 16th Street is a distinctive Greek Revival rowhouse constructed about 1846, at a time when the Union Square area was developing...
Read the storyResidential · 1846
23 West 16th Street, New York, NY
Located on the north side of West 16th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues, No. 23 West 16th Street is a distinctive Greek Revival rowhouse constructed about 1845, at a time when the Union Square area was developing...
Read the storyResidential · 1939-40
240 Central Park South, New York, NY
240 Central Park South Apartments built in 1939-40 to the design of Mayer & Whittlesey is a significant and innovative complex that represents the transition between 1930s Art Deco style apartment towers with courtyards...
Read the storyResidential · 1804
25 Harrison Street, New York, NY
This house is one of six Federal houses which compose a group that is unique in New York City. Nowhere else is there a survival of this many houses of this style-all of which retain their original pitched roofs and...
Read the storyResidential · 1892-93
254 West 102nd Street, New York, NY
The 254 West 102nd Street House is one of an intact group of four residences designed by the architectural firm of Schneider & Herter and built by the firm of Schneider & Company as a speculative venture. The rowhouse...
Read the storyResidential · 1844
26 Jones Street, New York, NY
Twenty-six Jones Street is a good example of a simple late Greek Revival three-story row house with a low basement. It is one of three similar houses located together in the same block. The lintels ever the windows and...
Read the storyResidential · 1827
263 Henry Street, New York, NY
This four-story modified Federal town house retains at first floor and basement levels much of its fine original appearance. Some of the details such as the stair rails and the two tall windows beside the door are good...
Read the storyResidential · 1827
265 Henry Street, New York, NY
This handsome Federal three-story town house with basement retains much of its original appearance, including its original doorway and iron railing in front. The building is a good example of Federal architecture, its...
Read the storyResidential · 1834
267 Henry Street, New York, NY
This handsome Georgian Eclectic three-story town house with basement represents the remodelling of an 1834 house done about 1910. As seen today, it is Georgian Eclectic in style despite the fact that the basement...
Read the storyResidential · 1844
28 Jones Street, New York, NY
Twenty-eight Jones Street is a good example of a simple late Greek Revival three-story row house with a low basement. It is one of three similar houses located together in the same block. The lintels ever the windows...
Read the storyResidential · 1829
281 East Broadway, New York, NY
This relatively modest Federal style rowhouse is a rare survivor of its type and era. Built about 1829 as one of a group of three for Isaac Ludlam, a New York City surveyor, the house occupies a twenty-foot wide lot on...
Read the storyResidential · 1827
29 Harrison St, New York, NY
This house is one of six Federal houses which compose a group that is unique in New York City. Nowhere else is there a survival of this many houses of this style - all of which retain their original pitched roofs and...
Read the storyResidential · 1844
30 Jones Street, New York, NY
Thirty Jones Street is a good example of a simple late Greek Revival three-story row house with a low basement. It is one of three similar houses located together in the same block. The lintels ever the windows and...
Read the storyResidential · 1857
311 East 58th Street, New York, NY
This charming two-story and basement house with painted brick walls and stone trim has a clean scrubbed look that is refreshing to behold. Vernacular in style, it has a small wooden stoops raised four steps above the...
Read the storyResidential · 1866
312 East 53rd Street, New York, NY
This attractive little wood house, one of a pair, was built for R. V. J. Cunningham in 1866. Simple as it is, it nonetheless reflects faithfully the post-Civil War architecture so much influenced by French Second Empire...
Read the storyResidential · 1856-57
313 E 58th Street, New York, NY
Set back behind its front yard and half hidden behind a tree growing out through its foundations this charming little two-story house is far removed in time from the traffic speeding past on its way to the Queensboro...
Read the storyResidential · 1866
314 East 53rd Street, New York, NY
The 314 East 53rd Street House, located on the south side of 53rd Street between First and Second Avenues, was constructed in 1866. It was built, along with its identical neighbor at 312 East 53rd Street, by Robert and...
Read the storyResidential · 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...
Read the storyResidential · 1826
32 Dominick Street, New York, NY
The 32 Dominick Street House was one of twelve Federal style brick row houses (nos. 28 to 50) built c. 1826 on the south side of Dominick Street between Hudson and Varick Streets; and was one of five houses (No. 28 to...
Read the storyResidential · 1853
326 E 18th Street, New York, NY
A charming row of three brick Italianate residences (Nos. 326-330). This low-lying two-story row is set far back from the street behind exceptionally deep front yards, a great rarity in Manhattan.
Read the storyResidential · 1890-91
329 West 85th Street, New York, NY
Constructed in 1890-91 for the builder-speculator Perez M. Stewart at a time when the blocks in the Eighties west of Broadway were first developed is a row of five nearly identical houses on the north side of West 85th...
Read the storyResidential · 1898-99
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...
Read the storyResidential · 1826
34 Dominick Street, New York, NY
The 34 Dominick Street House was one of twelve Federal style brick row houses (Nos. 28 to 50) built c. 1826 on the south side of Dominick Street between Hudson and Varick Streets; and was one of five houses (Nos. 28 to...
Read the storyResidential · 1892-93
351 Central Park West, New York, NY
The 351 Central Park West House is one of a group of five neo-Renaissance style houses, designed by Gilbert Schellenger and built in 1892-93 for Edward Kilpatrick. It is a component of one of two surviving rows of...
Read the storyResidential · 1892-93
352 Central Park West, New York, NY
The 352 Central Park West House is one of a group of five neo-Renaissance style houses, designed by Gilbert Schellenger and built in 1892-93 for Edward Kilpatrick. It is a component of one of two surviving rows of...
Read the storyResidential · 1841-42
354 West 11th Street, New York, NY
No. 354 West 11th Street is a relatively rare surviving residential building of the early period of the mixed-use development that came to characterize the far western section of Greenwich Village, which was built up...
Read the storyResidential · 1826
36 Dominick Street, New York, NY
The 36 Dominick Street House was one of twelve Federal style brick row houses (Nos. 28 to 50) built c. 1826 on the south side of Dominick Street between Hudson and Varick Streets; and was one of five houses (Nos. 28 to...
Read the storyResidential · 1845
37 E 4th St, New York, NY
The dignified Greek Revival residence at No. 37 East 4th Street and the Seabury-TredwelI (Old Merchant's) House at No. 29 are the only houses of note that have survived on this block.
Read the storyResidential · 1828
39 Harrison Street, New York, NY
This house is one of six Federal houses which compose a group that is unique in New York City, Nowhere else is there a survival of this many houses of this style - all of which retain their original pitched roofs and...
Read the storyResidential · 1916-17
409 Edgecombe Avenue, New York, NY
Considered Sugar Hill's most prestigious address from the 1930s through the 1950s, the apartment building at 409 Edgecombe Avenue portrays through its illustrious roster of tenants the achievement of African-Americans...
Read the storyResidential · 1832-33
428 Lafayette Street, New York, NY
This building is one of a group of four remaining town houses which are unified in appearance by a beautifully executed two-story Corinthian colonnade. The group is one of the treasures of our architectural heritage and...
Read the storyResidential · 1849-50
437 West 24th Street, New York, NY
This row of houses was erected by Philo V. Beebe, a neighborhood builder, as part of a long row of handsome, mid-19th century three-story houses. Set behind landscaped front yards, 15 feet deep, the row now affords a...
Read the storyResidential · 1906-08
45 E 66th St, New York, NY
The striking apartment house- at 45 East 66th Street stands at the corner of 66th Street and Madison Avenue and Is richly detailed with a profusion of Gothic ornament. The building creates a picturesque and imposing...
Read the storyResidential · 1818-19
480 Greenwich Street, New York, NY
The red brick double building at 480 Greenwich Street/502 Canal Street is part of a rare surviving cluster of early nineteenth-century structures in lower Manhattan on a block partially created on landfill and located...
Read the storyResidential · 1823
486 Greenwich Street, New York, NY
The modest rowhouse at No. 486 Greenwich Street was constructed c. 1823 in the Federal style, characterized by its 2-1/2-story height, second-story Flemish bond brickwork and fenestration, peaked roof, and pedimented...
Read the storyResidential · 1823
488 Greenwich Street, New York, NY
The modest rowhouse at No. 488 Greenwich Street was constructed c. 1823 in the Federal style, characterized by its 2-1/2-story height, brick cladding, second-story fenestration, peaked roof, and pedimented dormer. By...
Read the storyResidential · 1846
5 West 16th Street, New York, NY
The bow-fronted house at No. 5 West 16th Street, constructed c. 1846, serves as a distinctive reminder of the period when this section of Manhattan, near Union Square, was a fashionable neighborhood filled with handsome...
Read the storyResidential · 1841
504 Canal Street, New York, NY
The red brick building at 504 Canal Street is part of a rare surviving cluster of early nineteenth-century structures in lower Manhattan on a block partially created on landfill and located close to the Hudson River...
Read the storyResidential · 1826
506 Canal Street, New York, NY
The red brick building at 506 Canal Street is part of a rare surviving cluster of early nineteenth-century structures in lower Manhattan on a block partially created on landfill located close to the Hudson River...
Read the storyResidential · 1826
508 Canal Street, New York, NY
The brick building at 508 Canal Street is part of a rare surviving cluster of early nineteenth-century structures in lower Manhattan on a block partially created on landfill located close to the Hudson River waterfront....
Read the storyResidential · 1827-28
511 Grand Street, New York, NY
Built ca. 1827-28 as an investment property by James Lent and Henry Barclay, the rowhouse at 511 Grand Street is a remarkable, rare surviving example of the Federal-style house in Manhattan. Shaped by the irregular foot...
Read the storyResidential · 1827-28
513 Grand Street, New York, NY
Built ca. 1827-28 as an investment property by James Lent and Henry Barclay, the rowhouse at 513 Grand Street is a remarkable, rare surviving example of the Federal-style house in Manhattan. The modest, 17-foot wide...
Read the storyResidential · 1892
520 West End Avenue, New York, NY
The residence at 520 West End Avenue, commissioned by developer Richard G. Piatt in 1892 and completed that same year for cotton broker John B. Leech and his wife Isabella, is an early, and within the context of his...
Read the storyResidential · 1914-16
555 Edgecombe Avenue, New York, NY
The apartment building at 555 Edgecombe Avenue, built as the Roger Morris Apartments but known simply as "555," has achieved significance as the home of many of New York's successful African-Americans. Located-on an...
Read the storyResidential · 1932
56 E 93rd St, New York, NY
This impressive town house was erected in 1932 as the residence of William Goadby Loew, son-in-law of the banker George P. Baker, whose nearby mansion at 75 East 93rd Street is now the property of the Synod of Bishops,...
Read the storyResidential · 1902-03
63 East 79th Street, New York, NY
The impressive neo-English Classic style town house at 63 East 79th Street was designed in 1902 by architects Adam & Warren for Thatcher M. Adams. The building is representative of the large houses erected on the Upper...
Read the storyResidential · 1931
67 E 93rd Street, New York, NY
This charming house was built in 1931 end designed in a modified version of the popular neo-Federal style by the prestigious firm of Delano & Aldrich. It forms a cohesive architectural unit with the larger George F....
Read the storyResidential · 1907-08
69 East 79th Street, New York, NY
This imposing residence designed by Carrere & Hastings in a late French Baroque style was built between 1907 and 1908 for George and Sarah Rives. The building is representative of the large town houses erected on the...
Read the storyResidential · 1928-29
69 East 93rd Street, New York, NY
This unusual residence was part of the George F. Baker, Jr. Mansion, an outstanding example of the modified Federal Style, as applied to an early Twentieth Century town house of the first rank. The dignified two-story...
Read the storyResidential · 1846
7 West 16th Street, New York, NY
The bow-fronted house at No. 7 West 16th Street, constructed c. 1846, serves as a distinctive reminder of the period when this section of Manhattan, near Union Square, was a fashionable neighborhood filled with handsome...
Read the storyResidential · 1899-1900
7 West 54th Street, New York, NY
This elegant residence was built in 1899-1900 for Philip Lehman, a prominent New York banker. Designed in the French Beaux-Arts style by architect John H. Duncan, it is a distinguished example of the fashionable town...
Read the storyResidential · 1819
83 Sullivan St, New York, NY
This Federal style house, and its neighbor No. 85, have unusually fine door ways which were generally the most important architectural features of the houses of this period. Elegant and understated they typify the...
Read the storyResidential · 1819
85 Sullivan St, New York, NY
This Federal style house, and its neighbor No. 83, have unusually fine doorways which were generally the most important architectural features of the houses of this period. Elegant and understated, they typify the...
Read the storyResidential · 1892-93
856 West End Avenue, New York, NY
The 856 West End Avenue House is one of an intact group of four residences designed by the architectural firm of Schneider & Herter and built by the firm of Schneider & Company as a speculative venture. The rowhouse...
Read the storyResidential · 1892-93
858 West End Avenue, New York, NY
The 858 West End Avenue House is one of an intact group of four residences designed by the architectural firm of Schneider & Herter and built by the firm of Schneider & Company as a speculative venture. The rowhouse...
Read the storyResidential · 1896-98
11 West 54th Street, New York, NY
This distinguished residence was built in 1896-98 for James Junius Goodwin, a prominent New York businessman. Designed in the neo-Georgian style by the firm of McKim, Mead & White, it is a hand-some reminder of the...
Read the storyResidential · 1799-1800
94 Greenwich Street, New York, NY
The Federal style rowhouse at No. 94 Greenwich Street in Lower Manhattan was constructed c.1799-1800 as an investment property, right after this block was created through landfill and Greenwich and Rector Streets had...
Read the storyResidential · 1910-12
998 5th Avenue, New York, NY
No. 998 Fifth Avenue is a remarkably handsome building - the finest Italian Renaissance style apartment house in New York City. The architects were the prestigious firm of McKim, Mead & White, which at that time was...
Read the storyResidential · 1799
421 East 61st Street, New York, NY
The charm of this Federal style stone stable converted into a comfortable headquarters for the Colonial Dames is to be found in its superb masonry construction and its excellent proportions. The sharp profiles of the...
Read the storyResidential · 1909-11
57 Park Avenue, New York, NY
This elegant residence was built in 1909-11 for the New York socialite, Mrs. Adelaide Townsend Douglas, in the Murray Hill section of New York. Designed in the French Classic style of Louis XVI by architect. Horace...
Read the storyResidential · 1907-09
182 West 58th Street, New York, NY
Alwyn court is a unique example of an apartment house of the type utilizing Terra- cotta. This is the finest building of its type in New York City. Most high apartment structures at the turn of the century followed a...
Read the storyResidential · 1898-1900
4 East 54th Street, New York, NY
This former residence of William H. Moore is a fine example of a turn of the century stone townhouse. Its strong Italian Renaissance facade, rich carving and simple window arrangement (fenestration) give the building...
Read the storyResidential · 1899-1903
2 East 91st Street, New York, NY
When Andrew Carnegie commissioned the firm of Babb, Cook and Willard to design a new residence for him on upper Fifth Avenue, he envisioned it as being "the most modest, plainest and most roomy house in New York". The...
Read the storyResidential · 1845-47
241 West 14th Street, New York, NY
The Andrew Norwood House is an elegant urban residence designed in a transitional style which combines Greek Revival and Italianate features. It is an outstanding example of this type. Erected between 1845 and 1847, the...
Read the storyResidential · 1881-83
891 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY
The Association Residence for Respectable Aged Indigent Females, a prominent feature of the Manhattan Valley neighborhood of Manhattan's Upper West Side, was constructed in 1881-83 for one of New York City's oldest...
Read the storyResidential · 1880–1883
8–62 West 130th Street, New York, NY
Astor Row comprises 28 houses on the south side of West 130th Street between Fifth and Lenox avenues. Built in three stages from 1880 to 1883, the development occupied land owned by William Astor. Charles Buek designed...
Read the storyResidential · 1913-14
49 E 68th Street, New York, NY
This house adjoins and may be considered a part of that outstanding group of neo-Federal townhouses which extends along the west side of Park Avenue, between East 68th and 69th Streets. The houses on Park Avenue are...
Read the storyResidential · 1917-19
153 East 63rd Street, New York, NY
The Hatch residence, located on East 63rd Street between Lexington and Third Avenues, is a distinctive example of townhouse design from the period immediately following the First World War. It was commissioned by...
Read the storyResidential · 1927-28
140 East 63rd Street, New York, NY
The Barbizon Hotel for Women was built in 1927-28 as a residential hotel and clubhouse for single women, who at that time were moving to New York City in record numbers to take advantage of new professional...
Read the storyResidential · 1912-13
730 Riverside Drive, New York, NY
The Beaumont Apartments (1912-13), at Riverside Drive and West 150th Street, is a premiere example of the Arts & Crafts style architectural designs of the firm of George & Edward Blum. The firm specialized in apartment...
Read the storyResidential · 1929-30
307 East 44th Street, New York, NY
Designed by Raymond Hood, among the most prominent American architects of the twentieth century, and built in 1929-30, The Beaux-Arts Apartments is one of the earliest examples in New York City to reflect the trend...
Read the storyResidential · 1929-31
228 East Broadway, New York, NY
The Lower East Side of Manhattan is one of New York’s most storied neighborhoods, synonymous with the American immigrant experience and once home to the largest population of Jewish residents in the world. The...
Read the storyResidential · 1900-01
80 West 40th Street, New York, NY
The Bryant Park Studios constructed in 1900-01, is one of the earliest buildings in New York specifically designed to house artists' studios. The building's location across from Bryant Park and its generous windows with...
Read the storyResidential · 1909-11
680 Park Avenue, New York, NY
This house is a part of that outstanding group of neo-Federal townhouses which extends along the west side of Park Avenue, between East 68th and 69th Streets, sometimes referred to as the "Pyne-Davison Blockfront" due...
Read the storyResidential · 1931
25 Central Park West, New York, NY
The Century Apartments, extending along the entire blockfront of Central Park West between West 62nd Street to West 63rd Street, anchors the southern end of one of New York City's finest residential boulevards. Vith...
Read the storyResidential · 1849
151 Avenue B, New York, NY
Charlie Parker, called "Bird," was a world-famous alto saxophonist and jazz composer. From late 1950 through October 1954 he and his common-law wife Chan Richardson occupied the ground floor of No. 151 Avenue B, located...
Read the storyResidential · 1910-11
523 East 77th Street, New York, NY
The Shively Sanitary Tenements (also known as the East River Homes) are the product of a unique architectural approach to the major societal and medical problems caused by tuberculosis in the early twentieth century.
Read the storyResidential · 1886
295 East 8th Street, New York, NY
Opened on April 21,1887, the Children's Aid Society Tompkins Square Lodging House for Boys and Industrial School, aka the Eleventh Ward Lodging House, is one of a series of buildings in which the Children's Aid Society...
Read the storyResidential · 1891-92
307 East 12th Street, New York, NY
The Elizabeth Home for Girls, on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, was constructed in 1891-2 as a refuge for homeless girls by the Children’s Aid Society . Designed by renowned architect Calvert Vaux in a picturesque, High...
Read the storyResidential · 1898-1915
1168 1st Avenue, New York, NY
Built between 1898 and 1915, City and Suburban Homes Company's First Avenue Estate is the oldest extant project of the most successful of the privately financed, limited-dividend companies which attempted to address the...
Read the storyResidential · 1900-13
1470 York Avenue, New York, NY
Built between 1901 and 1913, City and Suburban Homes Company's Avenue A Estate was the largest low-income housing project in the world at the time of its completion and remained the t such project in Manhattan until the...
Read the storyResidential · 1930
124 East 80th Street, New York, NY
The influence of the Georgian town house is well exemplified in this handsome, three-story brick building, surmounted by a pedimented attic story. Towering end chimneys enframe two higher floors skillfully set back and...
Read the storyResidential · 1901-02
22 East 35th Street, New York, NY
This charming building, now the home of the Collectors Club, was constructed in 1901-02 as the residence of Thomas Benedict Clarke in the fashionable Murray Hill section of New York. An especially notable example of...
Read the storyResidential · 1916-17
690 Park Avenue, New York, NY
This house is a part of that outstanding group of neo-Federal townhouses which extends along the west side of Park Avenue, between East 68th and 69th Streets, sometimes referred to as the 'Pyne-Davison Blockfront" due...
Read the storyResidential · 1832
20 St. Mark's Place, New York, NY
In the Early Nineteenth Century, St. Mark’s Place (formerly known as Eighth Street) was one of the most elegant residential streets in the City. The Daniel Leroy House is one of an entire bloekfront erected in 1832 on...
Read the storyResidential · 1818-19
310 Spring Street, New York, NY
Located just north of Tribeca and a few blocks from the Hudson River, the Dennison and Lydia Wood House stands at the northern edge of Lispenard’s Meadows, a former marsh that extended for several blocks along...
Read the storyResidential · 1926-28
7th Ave & W 150th St, New York, NY
The Dunbar Apartments, named after the famous Black poet of the turn of the century, Paul Lawrence Dunbar (1872-1906), occupies the entire block bounded by 149th and 150th Streets and Seventh and Eighth Avenues. It was...
Read the storyResidential · 1783
Broadway & West 204th Street, New York, NY
The Dyckman House stands as the last typical Dutch Colonial farmhouse left on Manhattan Island. Built of fieldstone, brick and wood, this Eighteenth Century hose replaced one of 1748 which was destroyed by the British...
Read the storyResidential · 1906-04
17 West 56th Street, New York, NY
The Edith Andrews Logan residence was originally designed and constructed in 1870 by the prolific architect-builder John G. Prague as part of a row of fourstory- and-basement, single-family brownstone row houses....
Read the storyResidential · 1914-16
7 East 95th Street, New York, NY
The Fabbri House at 7 East 95th Street, built in 1914-16, is stylistically derived from Italian Renaissance sources and has many of the characteristics of an Italian palazzo. The architect, Grosvenor Atterbury, is noted...
Read the storyResidential · 1785-89
18 Bowery, New York, NY
This is the only known town house surviving in Manhattan which dates from the period of the American Revolution. It was built between 1785 and 1789. The house stands on its original site, at the southeast corner of Pell...
Read the storyResidential · 1907-09
1 East 75th Street, New York, NY
This imposing residence in the style of an Italian Renaissance palazzo is outstanding not only for excellence of design and beauty of execution but also for subtle richness of detail. Five stories high with basement and...
Read the storyResidential · 1929-31
300 Central Park West, New York, NY
The Eldorado, extending along the entire blockfront of Central Park West between 90th and 91st Streets, is the northernmost of the four twin-towered apartment houses that give Central Park West its distinctive skyline...
Read the storyResidential · 1906-08
1109 5th Avenue, New York, NY
By the early 1900s, Fifth Avenue facing Central Park had earned the nickname of "Millionaires' row." An astonishing panoply of millionaires' mansions had been constructed in which architectural elegance was equaled only...
Read the storyResidential · 1935-36
29 Avenue A, New York, NY
First Houses," the municipal housing project located on Avenue A, between Second and Third Streets, and along Third Street, was begun early in 1935 and com-pleted in mid-1936. Approval for the project was granted by...
Read the storyResidential · 1871
12 East 53rd Street, New York, NY
The Fisk-Harkness House is a town house originally constructed in 1871 and substantially altered in 1906 to the designs of architect Raleigh C. Gildersleeve, who transformed the building into a grand five-story American...
Read the storyResidential · 1889-1892
23 Park Avenue, New York, NY
Built in 1889-92 for J. Hampden Robb and his wife Cornelia Van Rensselaer Robb, this elegant and imposing structure is considered one of the finest urban residences designed by Stanford White of the prominent...
Read the storyResidential · 1907-08
222 Central Park South, New York, NY
The Gainsborough Studios is a rare surviving example of artists' cooperative housing, a building type popular in Manhattan for a brief period in the early twentieth century. Built during the heyday of its type, in...
Read the storyResidential · 1902-05
641 5th Avenue, New York, NY
This distinguished building, 647 Fifth Avenue, located between 51st and 52nd Streets, is one of the few reminders of the residential character and Beaux-Arts splendor of this section of Fifth Avenue at the turn of the...
Read the storyResidential · 1929-30
120 East 80th Street, New York, NY
The formal dignity of the Federal Style is evident in the character of the Twentieth Century town house. The virtues of the style are found in its excellent proportions, the refinement of its details, the quality of...
Read the storyResidential · 1895-98
867 Madison Avenue, New York, NY
At the turn of the century the streets of the upper East Side near Central Park were lined with elegant townhouses and great mansions. 'Chateaux' like the Waldo house were numerous, but today only a very few survive....
Read the storyResidential · 1869-71
1200 Broadway, New York, NY
Dominating the intersection of Broadway and West 29th Street, the Gilsey House Hotel is one of the city’s most imposing Second Empire cast-iron buildings. Designed by Stephen Decatur Hatch for Peter Gilsey, the hotel...
Read the storyResidential · 1883-84
891 Broadway, New York, NY
The Gorham Building, built in 1883-83 at the northwest corner of Broadway and 19th Street, was designed by noted architect Edward Hale Kendall, and is one of his few surviving buildings. The building is an unusual...
Read the storyResidential · 1799-1801
E 88th St & East End Ave, New York, NY
Located in Carl Schurz Park on the East River at East Eighty Eighth Street is one of the finest Federal Style country seats remaining to us from that early period. Standing on a promontory, once known as "Gracie's...
Read the storyResidential · 1899-1901
1937 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd, New York, NY
Graham Court Apartments, commissioned by William Waldorf Astor, was constructed in 1899-1901 as part of the great Harlem real-estate boom. Designed by the firm of Clinton & Russell, architects known for their many...
Read the storyResidential · 1801
287 Convent Avenue, New York, NY
The almost square architectural mass of Hamilton Grange is impressive in its symmetry and handsome proportions. Designed by one of the City's best early architects, John McComb, Jr., and incorporating features suggested...
Read the storyResidential · 1831
4 St. Mark's Place, New York, NY
The large town house at 4 St. Mark’s Place in the East Village section of Manhattan was constructed in 1831 in the Federal style, characterized and made notable by its unusual 26-foot width and 3-1/2-story height,...
Read the storyResidential · 1936-37
151st St & Macombs PL, New York, NY
Harlem River Houses, the first federally-funded, federally-built, and federally-owned housing project in New York City, was begun early in 1936 and completed in 1937. It was an example of the early collaboration between...
Read the storyResidential · 1899-1901
30 West 56th Street, New York, NY
No. 30 West 56th Street, designed by C.P.H. Gilbert for prominent investment banker Henry Seligman and his wife Adelaide, stands as a particularly grand and well-preserved example of the fashionable townhouses that once...
Read the storyResidential · 1894-96
9 East 72nd Street, New York, NY
The prominent architectural firm of Carrere & Hastings was commissioned In the early 1890s to design this large townhouse for the merchant prince, Henry T. Sloane. This elegant house is an especially fine example of the...
Read the storyResidential · 1882-86
26 East 51st Street, New York, NY
Nowhere in New York City does there exist another unified group of brownstone residences of such magnitude as this cluster standing on Madison Avenue. This great complex of Italian Renaissance town-houses is skillfully...
Read the storyResidential · 1882-84
455 Madison Avenue, New York, NY
Nowhere in New York City does there exist another unified group of brownstone residences of such magnitude as this cluster standing on Madison Avenue. This great complex of Italian Renaissance town-houses is skillfully...
Read the storyResidential · 1882-85
457 Madison Avenue, New York, NY
Nowhere in New York City does there exist another unified group of brownstone residences of such magnitude as this cluster standing on Madison Avenue. This great complex of Italian Renaissance town-houses is skillfully...
Read the storyResidential · 1901-03
346 West 89th Street, New York, NY
The imposing Isaac L. Rice Mansion, built in 1901-03, is one of two freestanding mansions to survive on Riverside Drive. As such it is a reminder of the period in the early 20th century when Riverside Drive was lined by...
Read the storyResidential · 1916-19
686 Park Avenue, New York, NY
This house is a part of that outstanding group of neo-Federal townhouses which extends along the west side of Park Avenue, between East 63th and 69th Streets, sometimes referred to as the "Pyne-Davison Blockfront" due...
Read the storyResidential · 1853
231 Madison Avenue, New York, NY
This three-story brownstone Anglo-Italianate mansion is one of the finest in the City. The house is memorable as the residences of J.P. Morgan Jr., one of the most eminent citizens of his time and one of our great...
Read the storyResidential · 1902-05
7 East 91st Street, New York, NY
The grandeur of the "Belle Epoque'' is reflected in this palatial residence built between 1902 and 1905 for steel manufacturer James A. Burden, Jr., and his wife, the former Florence Adele Sloane, a granddaughter of...
Read the storyResidential · 1817
326 Spring Street, New York, NY
Talbot Hamlin, the great authority on American architecture, noted in connection with the Federal style: "New York developed a special type of dwelling... the type is a local one." The James Brown House is a modest...
Read the storyResidential · 1901-03
123 East 35th Street, New York, NY
This imposing residence of Beaux-Arts design was built in 1901-03 for James and Harriet Lanier in the fashionable Murray Hill section of New York. Designed by the architectural firm of Hoppin & Koen, it remains one of...
Read the storyResidential · 1793-1806
7 State Street, New York, NY
This fine brick, Federal town house is significant as the last of the row of elegant town houses which once lined State Street. It is three stories high with an attic and is set on a stone basement. The unusual feature...
Read the storyResidential · 1909-11
11 E 91st Street, New York, NY
The restrained elegance of this distinguished house, built in 1909-11, is a simplified expression of French Beaux-Arts Classicism. The architects, S. B. Parkman Trowbridge and Goodhue Livingston, were the senior members...
Read the storyResidential · 1902-03
9 East 91st Street, New York, NY
This grand residence was built in 1902-03 and designed by the prestigious architects Carrere & Hastings, noted for the New York Public Library and the Henry Clay Frick Mansion. The Hammond House is a fine example of a...
Read the storyResidential · 1904-06
11 East 51st Street, New York, NY
The residence at 11 East 51 Street was erected in 1904-06 for stone and building contractor John Peirce and was designed by noted architect John H. Duncan. At the time of its construction, Fifth Avenue just south of...
Read the storyResidential · 1869
46 West 55th Street, New York, NY
The Joseph B. and Josephine H. Bissell House was originally constructed as one of five Italianate style brownstone row houses designed by architect Thomas Thomas and built in 1869 by owner and builder John W. Stevens....
Read the storyResidential · 1869
20 East 127th Street, New York, NY
This modest brownstone rowhouse, built in 1869, was designed in the Italianate style by architect Alexander Wilson. Built by two real estate developers, James Meagher and Thomas Hanson, it is typical of rowhouses built...
Read the storyResidential · 1933-34
211 East 48th Street, New York, NY
The Lescaze House of 1933-34, designed by William Lescaze for his own use as a combined residence and architectural office, is an embodiment of the theory and practice of one of the most influential exponents of modern...
Read the storyResidential · 1915
15 East 96th Street, New York, NY
The former Dahlgren House is located on the north side of East 96th Street between Fifth and Madison Avenues in the Carnegie Hill section of Manhattan. This neo-French Classic style town house was designed by the noted...
Read the storyResidential · 1930-31
115 Central Park West, New York, NY
The Majestic is one of five towered skyscraper apartment buildings which define the impressive skyline of Central Park West. Erected in 1930-31 by the Chanin Construction Company, headed by architect and developer Irwin...
Read the storyResidential · 1899-1901
2825 Broadway, New York, NY
Erected at the turn of the century, when the Upper West Side of Manhattan became the center of apartment house construction in the city, the Manhasset is one of the city's most imposing apartment houses. The building...
Read the storyResidential · 1947-51
200 East 66th Street, New York, NY
Manhattan House, an Upper East Side apartment and retail complex, was constructed between 1947 and 1951. Commissioned by the New York Life Insurance Company, it occupies an entire block, bounded by East 65th Street and...
Read the storyResidential · 1880-81
124 E 55th Street, New York, NY
The Mary Hale Cunningham House resulted from the 1909 remodeling, with a front extension, of a French Flats building originally constructed in 1880-81. The new facade was designed by Harrie T. Lindeberg, of the firm of...
Read the storyResidential · 1862
36 East 38th Street, New York, NY
In 1902-03 the prominent architectural firm of Hoppin & Koen remodeled a c.1862 brownstone row house to create this impressive Beaux Arts style mansion for Middleton S. Burrill and his wife Emilie Neilson Burrill....
Read the storyResidential · 1907-09
351 Riverside Drive, New York, NY
The imposing marble residence at the northeast corner of Riverside Drive and 107th Street was built for Morris Schinasi between 1907 and 1909. Designed by William B. Tuthill in the manner of a French chateau, the...
Read the storyResidential · 1934-35
219 East 49th Street, New York, NY
Morris B. Sanders, Jr. designed and built 219 East 49 Street in 1934-35. Located in the Turtle Bay section of Manhattan, between Second and Third Avenues, this building was one of the earliest structures in New York...
Read the storyResidential · 1765
65 Jumel Terrace, New York, NY
Of this impressively handsome pre-Revolutionary Georgian Mansion, it can truly be said that Washington slept there. This historic house with its columned and pedimented portico displays a true feeling of grandeur and...
Read the storyResidential · 1897-99
5 West 54th Street, New York, NY
This handsome, meticulously detailed town house was built in 1897-99 for Dr. Moses Allen Starr , one of America's leading, neurologists. Designed in the neo-Renaissance style using principals of Beaux Arts composition...
Read the storyResidential · 1913-21
3 East 95th Street, New York, NY
The building at 3 East 95th Street was built between 1913 and 1921 as a New York version of a Louis XVI Parisian house. This dignified residence, executed in the best tradition of 18th-century French Classicism, is...
Read the storyResidential · 1913-15
1130 5th Avenue, New York, NY
The National Audubon Society occupies an outstanding example of early Twentieth Century residential architecture, designed in the best tradition of the American town house.
Read the storyResidential · 1906-07
98 4th Avenue, New York, NY
This handsome building is one of the finest in the City. It is an integral part of a picturesque group of buildings, all designed in similar style, that form part of the Grace Church complex, and it is a part of the...
Read the storyResidential · 1914
100 East 85th Street, New York, NY
This large red brick town house is an exceptionally fine example of an early 20th Century town house designed in the neo-Federal style. It is located at the southeast corner of Park Avenue and East 85th Street. It was...
Read the storyResidential · 1890-91
345 Edgecombe Avenue, New York, NY
The Nicholas C. and Agnes Benziger House is one of Harlem's last remaining freestanding mansions. Benziger, a Swiss emigre, was a successful publisher, manufacturer, and importer of books and articles used in Catholic...
Read the storyResidential · 1938-39
140 Riverside Drive, New York, NY
The Normandy Apartments is one of the most outstanding apartment buildings on Manhattan's Upper West Side. A large eighteen-story (with nineteenth-story penthouse) twin-towered structure overlooking the Hudson River, it...
Read the storyResidential · 1831-32
29 East 4th Street, New York, NY
The Old Merchant's House is a brick town house with three stories, a basement and an attic. Completed in 1832, it was one in a row of six. Joseph Brewster built the houses and lived in number 29 until it was sold to...
Read the storyResidential · 1898-99
7 East 72nd Street, New York, NY
The Oliver Gould Jennings residence on East 72nd Street is an especially opulent and handsome example of a Beaux-Arts townhouse-. Designed in 1898 by the Paris-trained architects Ernest Flagg and Walter B. Chambers, the...
Read the storyResidential · 1883-89
205 West 57th Street, New York, NY
The Osborne Apartments, built in 1883-85 and designed by the talented and prolific architect James E. Ware, was one of the earliest luxury apartment buildings in New York City. Constructed in what by 1890 had become New...
Read the storyResidential · 1913-18
1 East 91st Street, New York, NY
Built for Otto H. Kahn (1867-1934), banker, philanthropist and patron of the arts, this imposing residence, occupied since 1934 by The Convent of the Sacred Heart, was begun in 1913 and completed only in 1918, after the...
Read the storyResidential · 1927-28
3 Mitchell Place, New York, NY
Prominently sited at the top of Beekman Hill, the Panhellenic Tower (now the Beekman Tower Hotel) is one of the great Art Deco skyscrapers in Midtown Manhattan. Erected in 1927-29 as a residence and clubhouse for women...
Read the storyResidential · c. 1860s
23 Beekman Place, New York, NY
The Paul Rudolph Penthouse & Apartments is located on Beekman Place, a small residential enclave in the Turtle Bay section of Manhattan. Close to the East River, this street extends just two blocks, from Mitchell Place...
Read the storyResidential · 1902-06
972 5th Avenue, New York, NY
This mansion stands out on its own architectural merit, on the last remaining blockfront of imposing town houses on Fifth Avenue. The gracious curve of the light gray granite front, about forty feet wide, rises through...
Read the storyResidential · 1852
231 Madison Avenue, New York, NY
The Phelps Stokes - J. P. Morgan, Jr. House is a rare surviving freestanding mansion in midtown Manhattan, recalling the initial residential development of Murray Hill. Notable for its associations with two prominent...
Read the storyResidential · 1921
261 West 94th Street, New York, NY
Numbers 3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22, Pomander Walk, 261, 263,265,267, West 94th Street, and 260,262,264,266,270,272,274, West 95th Street.
Read the storyResidential · 1837-38
110 2nd Avenue, New York, NY
The grand three-story (plus attic and basement) Greek Revival style rowhouse at No. 110 Second Avenue, in today’s East Village neighborhood of Manhattan, is the only survivor of a row of four houses that functioned as...
Read the storyResidential · 1903-04
350 West 85th Street, New York, NY
Red House, an exceptionally handsome apartment building, located at 350 West 85th Street near the southeast corner of West 85th Street and Riverside Drive, was built in 1903-04. An early building designed by the firm of...
Read the storyResidential · 1925-27
465 Park Avenue, New York, NY
The Ritz Tower Apartment Hotel was constructed in 1925 at the premier crossroads of New York's Upper East Side, the corner of 57th Street and Park Avenue, where the exclusive shops and artistic enterprises of 57th...
Read the storyResidential · 1809-10
67 Greenwich Street, New York, NY
The large (nearly 41 by 62 feet), significantly intact Federal style town house at No. 67 Greenwich Street in lower Manhattan was constructed in 1809-10 when this was the most fashionable neighborhood for New York’s...
Read the storyResidential · 1935-37
17 West 54th Street, New York, NY
Rockefeller Apartments, built in 1935-37 and designed by the firm of Harrison & Fouilhoux, are a major example of the International Style. Commis-sioned by John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and Nelson Rockefeller, they...
Read the storyResidential · 1949-50
242 E 52nd Street, New York, NY
Designed by Philip C. Johnson in 1948 and built in 1949-50, the former Rockefeller Guest House is one of the earliest buildings in New York City to reflect the influence of the modern movement in architecture and the...
Read the storyResidential · 1930-31
60 East 93rd Street, New York, NY
This very dignified town house, designed for Mrs. Graham Fair Vanderbilt in 1929, is a fine example of the last of that great series of houses which was built before the depression paralyzed building construction and...
Read the storyResidential · 1929-30
146 Central Park West, New York, NY
Soaring over Central Park, the profile of the San Remo is among the most important components of the magnificent skyline of Central Park West. The first of the twin-towered buildings which give Central Park West its...
Read the storyResidential · 1908
49 East 65th Street, New York, NY
The Upper East Side Historic District epitomizes the architectural development of this section of the city in a variety of architectural styles and building types ranging from later 19th-century brownstone rowhouses to...
Read the storyResidential · 1925-26
684 Park Avenue, New York, NY
This house is a part of that outstanding group of neo-Federal townhouses which extends along the west side of Park Avenue, between East 68th and 69th Streets, sometimes referred to as the "Pyne-Davison Blockfront" due...
Read the storyResidential · 1816
149 Mulberry Street, New York, NY
The Stephen Van Rensselaer House is a good example of a small early Nineteenth Century Federal style house. The two story structure, with basement and attic, is typical of the modest dwellings described by Montgomery...
Read the storyResidential · 1803-04
21 Stuyvesant Street, New York, NY
Twenty-One Stuyvesant Street is a brick Federal Style residence with three full floors and an attic. In its architecture, the Stuyvesant-Fish House displays beauty of proportion, notable restraint and those details that...
Read the storyResidential · 1840
Governor's Island, New York, NY
As is befitting the station and importance of an executive officer, The Admiral's House on Governors Island is an elegant late Federal style manor house of imposing scale. This porticoed, rectangular mansion with...
Read the storyResidential · 1916-18
145 East 39th Street, New York, NY
Constructed in 1916-18 by architect Arthur Loomis Harmon (1878-1958), the Allerton House at 145 East 39th Street provided the service of a hotel and the intimacy of a private club for young, single men. As described in...
Read the storyResidential · 1906-08
2201 Broadway, New York, NY
This handsome apartment house built around a large central courtyard fills a short city block between Broadway and West End Avenue. Designed in the Italian Renaissance style by Clinton & Russell for the Astor Estate, it...
Read the storyResidential · 1886-88
10 St. Nicholas Place, New York, NY
This handsome residence was erected between 1666 and 1688 for James Anthony Bailey, partner in the famed Barnum & Bailey Circus. Samuel B. Reed, the architect for the house, combined structural and decorative elements...
Read the storyResidential · 1908-09
225 West 86th Street, New York, NY
Occupying an entire city block and enclosing a spacious landscaped courtyard, this massive twelve story brick and limestone building is a fine example of imaginative apartment house design. Planned for gracious living,...
Read the storyResidential · 1928-29
211 Central Park West, New York, NY
The Beresford Apartments, completed in 1929 and designed by Emery Roth, then at the pinnacle of his career as a specialist in apartment house design, is one of the largest and grandest of the apartment buildings along...
Read the storyResidential · 1902-04
340 West 72nd Street, New York, NY
Prominently sited on the south side of West 72 Street at the foot of Riverside Park on Manhattan's Upper West Side, the Chatsworth Apartments and Annex are two exceptionally handsome apartment buildings that were...
Read the storyResidential · 1880-84
1 West 72nd Street, New York, NY
The Dakota was built between 1880 and 1884 to designs by Henry J. Hardenbergh, who later designed the Plaza Hotel. Commissioned by Edward S. Clark, it gave luxury apartment living a monumental presence beside Central...
Read the storyResidential · 1899-1901
309 West 72nd Street, New York, NY
The Diller Residence, designed by Gilbert A. Schellenger and constructed in 1899-1901, is an elegant Renaissance Revival town house located on a prominent site near the intersection of West 72nd Street and Riverside...
Read the storyResidential · 1900-02
171 West 71st Street, New York, NY
This French Beaux-Arts style apartment house, located diagonally across Broadway from The Ansonia and harmonizing with it, evokes memories of Paris. It was erected by Hamilton Weed, a builder, in 1900-1902 and was...
Read the storyResidential · 1896-98
3 Riverside Drive, New York, NY
The Kleeberg Residence, designed by noted architect C.P.H. Gilbert and constructed in 1896-98, is an elegant French Renaissance Revival style town house exhibiting a combination of Gothic and Renaissance details...
Read the storyResidential · 1928-29
312 Riverside Drive, New York, NY
The Master Building, erected in 1928-29 to house an apartment hotel and museum, is an innovative and significant example of the work of Harvey Wiley Corbett, an architect influential in skyscraper design, and expresses...
Read the storyResidential · 1903-05
854 5th Avenue, New York, NY
Although this small town house is sandwiched between two large apartment buildings, their overpowering size cannot diminish the palatial scale nor the elegant grandeur of its architecture. Designed by an architect...
Read the storyResidential · 1899-1901
1 Riverside Drive, New York, NY
The Prentiss Residence, designed by noted architect C.P.H. Gilbert and constructed in 1899-1901, is an elegant Beaux-Arts style town house located on a prominent site at the intersection of West 72nd Street and...
Read the storyResidential · 1916-17
200 West 57th Street, New York, NY
The Rodin Studios building, built in 1916-17, was designed by Cass Gilbert specifically for artists. Named for the most innovative living artist of the time, it represents a refinement on the earlier essays in that was...
Read the storyResidential · 1901-02
311 West 72nd Street, New York, NY
The Sutphen Residence, designed by noted architect C.P.H. Gilbert and constructed in 1901-02, is an elegant Beaux-Arts style town house located on a prominent site at the intersec.•tion of West 72nd Street and Riverside...
Read the storyResidential · 1880-81
406 West 57th Street, New York, NY
The Windermere, constructed in 1880-81, is significant as the oldest-known large apartment complex remaining in an area that was one of Manhattan's first apartment-house districts. With its exuberant display of...
Read the storyResidential · 1964-67
505 Laguardia Place, New York, NY
University Village is one of the finest examples of a mid-20th century residential complex located in New York City. Designed by architect James Ingo Freed of I. M. Pei & Associates for New York University, construction...
Read the storyResidential · 1883-84
2040 Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Blvd, New York, NY
The Washington Apartments, built in 1883-84 for the speculative developer Edward H.M. Just, was the earliest apartment building constructed in central Harlem. This eight-story brick building, with stone, iron,...
Read the storyResidential · 1900-01
294 Riverside Drive, New York, NY
Built in 1900-01, the 294 Riverside Drive House is a rare survivor which exemplifies the character of Riverside Drive from the time when it was developed with many luxurious single-family residences. Located between...
Read the storyResidential · 1926-27
116 E 55th Street, New York, NY
The William and Helen Ziegler, Jr. House was built in 1926-27, at the end of the era of large single-family town houses for the wealthy in Manhattan. It is one of the most distinguished New York City residences by...
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