{"nrhp_refnum":"04001019","name":"110th Street-Cathedral Parkway Subway Station (IRT)","other_names":[],"category":"structure","location":{"address":"Jct. of Broadway, W. 110th St. and Cathedral Pkwy.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Manhattan","state":"NY","lat":40.80399818300003,"lon":-73.96654589399998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2004-09-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Transportation","Architecture","Art","Engineering","Community Planning and Development","Social History"],"significance_levels":["national","local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"An underground subway station beneath Broadway at West 110th Street and Cathedral Parkway in the Morningside Heights section of Manhattan, completed in 1904 as part of the original Interborough Rapid Transit (IRT) Contract 1 line.","why_significant":"The station is significant for transportation, community planning and development, and social history as part of the original IRT system, which helped drive development in Morningside Heights. It also meets the criterion for engineering, architectural design and art, through its engineering by William Barclay Parsons and its decorative scheme by Heins & LaFarge. It retains a relatively high degree of integrity.","narrative":"Beneath Broadway at West 110th Street, this Manhattan subway station opened in 1904 as one of the original stops on the first Interborough Rapid Transit line. It was built by the cut-and-cover method, with a concrete foundation, steel columns and a three-track, side-platform layout. William Barclay Parsons handled the engineering, while the architects Heins & LaFarge, known for the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, designed the decoration. Their work draws on the City Beautiful movement. Surviving features include white glass tile walls, Roman brick wainscoting, large mosaic name tablets reading Cathedral Parkway, and blue faience plaques showing the number 110 between tulips on a shield. The station also helped spur development of Morningside Heights, where Columbia University had relocated in 1896 and where nearly all vacant land was built on by 1904. The nominated boundary covers the original 1904 portions and excludes later platform extensions.","period_of_significance":"1904","architect_builder":"Parsons, William Barclay (engineer); Heins, George L. and LaFarge, Christopher G. (architects)","architectural_style":"Late 19th & 20th Century Revivals/Beaux-Arts","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The station remains in transportation use. Its platforms were later extended from 350 to 520 feet, and those extensions lie outside the nominated boundary.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:54.004418-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/04001019.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04001019/acfaef2f92-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04001019/acfaef2f92-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Gryffindor","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cathedral_Parkway_110th_Street_IRT_Broadway_004.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Gryffindor</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:Cathedral_Parkway_110th_Street_IRT_Broadway_004.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75313907","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathedral_Parkway%E2%80%93110th_Street_station_(IRT_Broadway%E2%80%93Seventh_Avenue_Line)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2278502"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/manhattan/110th-street-cathedral-parkway-subway-station-irt-04001019/"}