{"nrhp_refnum":"08000450","name":"House at 146 East 38th St.","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"146 E. 38th St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Manhattan","state":"NY","lat":40.74990073300006,"lon":-73.97742881499994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2008-05-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story-and-basement Italianate brownstone row house at 146 East 38th Street in the Murray Hill area of Manhattan, built 1860-1861 by builders Joseph Whitehead and Benjamin Wise Jr.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is an unusually intact example of a Manhattan Italianate brownstone, a type that is rare there and was more common in Brooklyn. It is one of the earliest surviving row houses in Murray Hill and represents the neighborhood's first wave of development just before the Civil War. It retains much of its original exterior and interior detail.","narrative":"Built in 1860-1861, this three-story-and-basement brownstone row house on East 38th Street in Manhattan's Murray Hill area is a rare surviving example of the Italianate style in the borough. Builders Joseph Whitehead and Benjamin Wise Jr. erected it as one of six similar houses, and it is the most intact of the group. The facade has a rusticated basement, a round-arched entrance with a broken segmental pediment, molded window lintels with footed sills, and a bracketed cornice. Inside, original details survive, including a wooden staircase rising to a skylight, pocket doors, wall niches, ceiling moldings and marble fireplaces. The house reflects the earliest wave of Murray Hill development, when merchants moved to the neighborhood just before the Civil War. It was owned from 1861 to 1916 by Marion Leslie and rented to tenants, among them civil engineer Thomas Curtis Clarke, who lived there until his death in 1901. Few Italianate brownstones remain in Manhattan, which adds to its architectural value.","period_of_significance":"1860-61","architect_builder":"Whitehead, Joseph (builder); Wise, Benjamin Jr. (builder)","architectural_style":"Late Victorian/Italianate","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Still used as a single dwelling, as are its historic functions; the rear extension is non-historic and the third-story front room has been divided.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:53.620624-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/08000450.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08000450/3d59768b4c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08000450/3d59768b4c-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Americasroof at English Wikipedia","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:No_146,_East_38th_Street,_Manhattan.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Americasroof at English Wikipedia</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:No_146,_East_38th_Street,_Manhattan.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75313825","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/146_East_38th_Street","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5755385"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/manhattan/house-at-146-east-38th-st-08000450/"}