{"nrhp_refnum":"04001326","name":"Schickel, William, House","other_names":["Ann Hyde Clark Choate House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"52 E. 83rd St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Manhattan","state":"NY","lat":40.778625487000056,"lon":-73.95994738599995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2004-12-06","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story French Second Empire row house with a basement and attic at 52 East 83rd Street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, designed in 1881-82 by architect William Schickel as his own family home.","why_significant":"The house is significant for its architecture as an excellent, largely intact example of a French Second Empire row house, with a slate mansard roof, a bold mix of red brick and white stone, and an elaborate entrance. It is also significant for its association with William Schickel, a prominent 19th-century New York architect, and with Anna Hyde Clark Choate, second president of the Girl Scouts of America, who lived there from 1919.","narrative":"Built in 1881-82 at 52 East 83rd Street on Manhattan's Upper East Side, this red brick row house was designed by architect William Schickel as his own home. It rises three stories over a rusticated limestone basement, with an attic under a slate mansard roof, three dormers and a bracketed cornice. An elaborate entrance with fluted Ionic columns and a projecting stone balcony sits atop a high stoop. Schickel, a German-born architect who designed churches, hospitals, mansions and commercial buildings, lived here until his death in 1907, and his family stayed until 1919. The Choate family then owned it until 1946. Anna Hyde Clark Choate became the second president of the Girl Scouts of America in 1920 and remained active in the organization until her death in 1967. The house was divided into apartments in 1947 and returned to single-family use in the 1990s. It remains in excellent condition and largely intact, and is notable as a fine example of its style.","period_of_significance":"1881-1946","architect_builder":"Schickel, William","architectural_style":"Late Victorian/French Second Empire","criteria":["B","C"],"status_note":"Described as in excellent physical condition and mainly intact; altered for apartments in 1947 and restored to single-family use in the 1990s.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:53.179266-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/04001326.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04001326/de2d175069-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04001326/de2d175069-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Americasroof","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Schickel-house-52e83.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:Schickel-house-52e83.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"10000588","name":"Park Avenue Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/new-york/park-avenue-historic-district-10000588/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75319882","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Schickel_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q116152674"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/manhattan/schickel-william-house-04001326/"}