{"nrhp_refnum":"02000552","name":"Philipsburgh Building","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"2-8 Hudson St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Yonkers","county":"Westchester County","state":"NY","lat":40.933043990000044,"lon":-73.89965964199996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2002-05-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A five-story brick and marble commercial building with a double-height rear ballroom wing at 2-8 Hudson Street in downtown Yonkers, Westchester County, New York. Construction began in 1904 to designs by G. Howard Chamberlin.","why_significant":"The nomination presents it as one of the major surviving buildings of Yonkers's turn-of-the-century downtown expansion, and as a well-preserved Italian Renaissance Revival design by architect G. Howard Chamberlin. It was planned as a speculative office building with a rentable ballroom, and its upper floors became apartments in 1935. It is listed under Criteria A and C for architecture and community planning and development.","narrative":"Rising five stories on Hudson Street in downtown Yonkers, this brick and white marble building was begun in 1904 to designs by architect G. Howard Chamberlin. It was planned as a speculative venture, with storefronts at street level, offices on the upper four floors and a large double-height ballroom in a wing at the rear. The Italian Renaissance Revival facade is eleven bays wide and centers on a projecting marble portico with four Ionic columns and a broken pediment carrying the building's name. Inside, the ballroom survives with a thirty-foot ceiling, mezzanine balconies, a stage, a former organ loft and elaborate plaster ornament. In 1935 the offices were converted to studio apartments, many keeping original layouts, cupboards and tiled bathrooms. The building rose during Yonkers's rapid growth as a rail-served industrial city, when new commercial structures replaced earlier, more modest ones. A restoration completed in 2001 left it with a high degree of integrity, and it is valued for both its architecture and its role in downtown development.","period_of_significance":"1904-35","architect_builder":"Chamberlin, G. Howard","architectural_style":"Late 19th and Early 20th Century Revivals: Italian Renaissance","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Restored in 2001; ground-floor commercial space and ballroom wing remain, and the upper floors are used as apartments.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:53.715073-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/02000552.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02000552/3c424786fb-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02000552/3c424786fb-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"ALT55 - Victor M","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yonkers_-_2013_019_-_Phillipsburgh_Building,_2-8_Hudson_Street.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">ALT55 - Victor M</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yonkers_-_2013_019_-_Phillipsburgh_Building,_2-8_Hudson_Street.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75323167","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipsburgh_Building","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7185544"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/westchester-county/philipsburgh-building-02000552/"}