{"nrhp_refnum":"03000997","name":"Murray Hill Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by East 35th St., East 39th St., Park Ave. and Lexington Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Manhattan","state":"NY","lat":40.74806719500006,"lon":-73.97935866575357,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2003-10-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History","Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential historic district in Midtown Manhattan, roughly bounded by East 35th Street, East 39th Street, Park Avenue and Lexington Avenue, made up of 88 contributing and 12 non-contributing buildings, mostly mid-19th-century brownstone row houses.","why_significant":"The district is described as one of the last intact 19th-century residential districts in Midtown Manhattan. It keeps some of the city's oldest surviving brownstone-fronted row houses, mostly Italianate in style. Early 20th-century apartment houses and hotels along Park Avenue show the neighborhood's later development. The text available does not include the full Section 8 statement of significance.","narrative":"Five blocks of Midtown Manhattan between Park and Lexington Avenues, from East 35th to East 39th Streets, make up this district of 88 contributing and 12 non-contributing buildings. Its character comes from rows of brownstone-fronted row houses built before the Civil War, mostly in an Italianate style, with many dating to the 1850s. Several have been covered in stucco or altered over time, yet most still read clearly as a mid-19th-century neighborhood. Park Avenue adds early 20th-century apartment houses and hotels in restrained neo-Classical and neo-Georgian styles, along with churches such as the Church of the New Jerusalem on East 35th Street. The district also contains the Lanier House and the Douglas House, which were listed individually in 1982. Residents over the years included a Union army captain, an illustrator who created the Gibson Girl, and stage actors. It is described as one of the last intact 19th-century residential districts in Midtown.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Builders and architects named include Washington A. Cronk, Samuel W. Cronk, Thomas Kilpatrick, James C. Hoe, Stanford White of McKim, Mead & White, Carrere & Hastings, York & Sawyer, and Hoppin & Koen.","architectural_style":"Late Victorian (Italianate, Second Empire, Renaissance Revival); Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals (Beaux Arts, Colonial Revival, Classical Revival); neo-Moorish; neo-Romanesque; Art Deco","criteria":[],"status_note":"Buildings are overwhelmingly residential, some still single-family and others divided into apartments. Many row houses keep most of their historic features, while some have replacement windows or stucco over the brownstone.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:53.630144-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/03000997.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75313843","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/manhattan/murray-hill-historic-district-03000997/"}