{"nrhp_refnum":"03001151","name":"Brooks and Hewitt Halls","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Jct. W. 116th St. and Claremont Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Manhattan","state":"NY","lat":40.808556671000076,"lon":-73.96456638299998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2003-11-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Brooks Hall (1906-07) and Hewitt Hall (1924-25) are two interconnected dormitory buildings at the southern end of the Barnard College campus, at West 116th Street and Claremont Avenue in Morningside Heights, Manhattan.","why_significant":"The nomination marks the property under Criterion A for Education and Criterion C for Architecture. The halls illustrate Barnard College's growth and its policy of echoing Columbia's architecture with red Harvard brick and white trim. Brooks Hall was designed by Charles A. Rich, a well-known New York architect. Both buildings keep a high degree of exterior integrity and many original interior features.","narrative":"Brooks Hall (1906-07) and Hewitt Hall (1924-25) form a linked dormitory complex at the southern edge of the Barnard College campus in Morningside Heights, Manhattan. Both are faced in red Harvard brick laid in Flemish bond with limestone, granite and terra-cotta trim. Brooks Hall, seven and a half stories tall, has a colonnaded cloister-like portico with Ionic columns, a Spanish-tile roof and an interior with scagliola columns, marble and iron stairs, and a former dining room now used as a living room. Hewitt Hall is simpler, with rusticated limestone corners, a Doric-columned entrance, copper-clad roof and original basement dining rooms. The buildings reflect Barnard's growth after its founding in 1889 as a women's college affiliated with Columbia, and its practice of matching Columbia's brick-and-limestone architecture. Brooks Hall was designed by Charles A. Rich, who also designed Barnard's earlier Milbank complex. Original exteriors are largely intact apart from replaced window sash. The halls remain in college use.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Charles A. Rich (Brooks Hall, per the text available)","architectural_style":"Late 19th & 20th Century Revivals: Italian Renaissance/Colonial Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Still in use as college dormitories (current function: education/college); exterior windows replaced with aluminum sash, though the buildings retain high exterior integrity.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:53.012085-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/03001151.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03001151/d4c9d1f01a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03001151/d4c9d1f01a-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"The Fixers (Wikis Take Manhattan 2009 participant)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Barnard_College_Hewitt_Hall_WTM3_The_Fixers_0017.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">The Fixers (Wikis Take Manhattan 2009 participant)</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:Barnard_College_Hewitt_Hall_WTM3_The_Fixers_0017.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75319313","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks_and_Hewitt_Halls","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4975066"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/manhattan/brooks-and-hewitt-halls-03001151/"}