{"nrhp_refnum":"07001193","name":"House at 49 East 80th Street","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"49 E 80th St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Manhattan","state":"NY","lat":40.778974798000036,"lon":-73.96072407799994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2007-11-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A five-story Art Deco town house at 49 East 80th Street on Manhattan's Upper East Side, built in 1929-30 for banker Lionello Perera to designs by Harry Allan Jacobs.","why_significant":"It is argued to be a rare example of Art Deco town house design in New York City, and the first such town house built in Manhattan. It was one of only four Manhattan town houses built in 1930 and among the last on the Upper East Side before the Depression ended town house construction. It was also among the last commissions of architect Harry Allan Jacobs.","narrative":"This five-story town house on East 80th Street, between Madison and Park avenues, was built in 1929-30 for banker Lionello Perera and his wife Carolyn, with Harry Allan Jacobs as architect. Its street front is a restrained take on Art Deco, with contrasting stone and brick at street level, zigzag cast-stone bands, patterned brick courses, a large second-story casement window and a Monel metal entrance gate. Inside, a curving staircase with a Monel railing, leaded glass doors and Art Deco pilasters survive. The nomination argues that it is the first Art Deco town house in Manhattan and possibly the only one, and one of just four town houses built in the borough in 1930, just as the Depression ended the era of such construction. Jacobs, who had long designed town houses for wealthy New Yorkers, died two years later. Later owners included Barbra Streisand, who bought it in 1970.","period_of_significance":"1929-1930","architect_builder":"Jacobs, Harry Allan","architectural_style":"Modern Movement/Art Deco","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still used as a single dwelling; the street front survives almost entirely intact apart from a non-original garage door, and much of the interior survives, though the fifth floor has been converted to a kitchen.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:52.756315-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/07001193.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07001193/fca433254d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07001193/fca433254d-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Americasroof","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:49e80-nyc.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:49e80-nyc.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75319616","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/49_East_80th_Street","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17994845"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/manhattan/house-at-49-east-80th-street-07001193/"}