{"nrhp_refnum":"100004981","name":"Park Avenue Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Portions of Alexander, Audubon, Barrington, Berkeley, Berkshire, Beverly, Brighton, Brunswick, Calumet, Cambridge, Colby, Cornell, Dartmouth, Darwin, Donlon, Edgerton, Ericsson, Faraday, Girard, Harlem, Harper, Harvard, Homer, & Meigs Sts., et al.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Rochester","county":"Monroe County","state":"NY","lat":43.14912480400005,"lon":-77.58343980788537,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2020-02-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A linear historic district along Park Avenue from 79th to 96th Street in the Upper East Side and Carnegie Hill neighborhoods of Manhattan, lined mostly with 12 to 18-story masonry apartment buildings and a planted median.","why_significant":"The district is significant as a largely intact stretch of early twentieth century urban apartment buildings in revival styles, along with a few mansions, churches and older row houses. The form also notes that the 1920s apartment buildings are among the finest examples of the type in New York City and the United States. The period of significance runs from 1856 to 1961.","narrative":"Park Avenue between 79th and 96th Streets forms a wide residential corridor in Manhattan's Upper East Side and Carnegie Hill. Most of it is lined with 12 to 18-story brick apartment buildings from the 1910s and 1920s, built to the street line and trimmed with stone and terra cotta. They draw on Italian Renaissance, Georgian, Jacobethan, Art Deco and Moderne styles. Planted median malls cover the sunken railroad tracks running north from Grand Central Terminal and give the avenue its name. Among the few earlier and institutional survivors are 1856 row houses, a late nineteenth century tenement, the Lewis Morris and Reginald DeKoven houses, the George F. Baker complex, St. Ignatius Loyola Church and the Park Avenue Christian Church. The district is recognized for its largely intact collection of early twentieth century apartment architecture, with several 1920s buildings called some of the finest of their type in the country. Its period of significance spans 1856 to 1961, and its landscape resembles its appearance around 1930.","period_of_significance":"1856-1961","architect_builder":"Multiple architects, including Delano & Aldrich, Emery Roth, J.E.R. Carpenter, Schwartz & Gross, Rosario Candela, George F. Pelham, Mott B. Schmidt, Ernest Flagg, John Russell Pope and Schickel & Ditmars","architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals (Italian Renaissance, Late Gothic Revival, Jacobethan, Georgian Revival, English Renaissance Revival); Late Victorian (Queen Anne, neo-Grec); Modern Movement (Moderne, Art Deco)","criteria":[],"status_note":"All buildings are described as in excellent physical condition and the historic uses continue; alterations include window replacement and penthouse additions. Six replacement buildings post-date the period of significance.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:48.019688-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/10000588.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75319815","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/monroe-county/park-avenue-historic-district-100004981/"}