{"nrhp_refnum":"03000407","name":"West 147th-149th Streets Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Eighth Ave., W. 149th St., Seventh Ave., and W. 147th Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Manhattan","state":"NY","lat":40.82469543050007,"lon":-73.93950439123407,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2003-05-18","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential historic district of 60 contributing buildings (58 tenements, one school and one stable) on parts of three blocks of West 147th, 148th and 149th Streets between Seventh and Eighth Avenues in the Bradhurst section of Harlem, Manhattan. Most buildings date from 1904-1907.","why_significant":"The district is presented as a cohesive, representative example of early twentieth-century, working-class, speculative tenement construction in Harlem. Most buildings went up within a few years, with the peak in 1905, after the new subway line spurred a building boom. Nearly all are 'new law' tenements built under the Tenement House Act of 1901, mostly by immigrant speculative builders.","narrative":"This Harlem district brings together 60 buildings on parts of three blocks between Seventh and Eighth Avenues: 58 tenements, a school and a two-story stable. Nearly all stand five or six stories tall and were built within a few years of one another, with the largest number erected in 1905. Brick facades with limestone ground floors, white glazed terra-cotta ornament and pressed-metal cornices give the streets a unified look, with detailing drawn from Renaissance and French Beaux-Arts models. The buildings reflect the speculative boom that followed the opening of the subway, when mostly immigrant builders put up housing for working-class families moving north from downtown. Most are 'new law' tenements built under the Tenement House Act of 1901, which required more light, air and open space. The school, P.S. 90, uses a Collegiate Gothic style. Many buildings were abandoned in the late twentieth century and were restored around 2000 to 2002, and the district keeps its historic character to a high degree.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"George F. Pelham; Neville & Bagge; John Hauser; Henry Fuller; C. B. J. Snyder (P.S. 90); Schickel & Ditmars; J. Averit Webster; Henry Andersen; J. M. Felson","architectural_style":"Late Victorian/Romanesque Revival; Late 19th & 20th Century Revivals/Beaux Arts, Late Gothic Revival, Italian Renaissance (mostly Neo-Renaissance tenements)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Most buildings were abandoned in the late twentieth century and restored c. 2000-2002; P.S. 90 is noted as vacant with some windows missing.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:53.155876-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/03000407.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03000407/af410683ab-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03000407/af410683ab-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Americasroof","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:148-neighborhood.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Americasroof</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:148-neighborhood.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75320055","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_147th%E2%80%93149th_Streets_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7984212"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/manhattan/west-147th-149th-streets-historic-district-03000407/"}