{"nrhp_refnum":"10000553","name":"Building at 133 East 80th Street","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"133 E 80th St","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Manhattan","state":"NY","lat":40.777906055000074,"lon":-73.95808624099999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2010-08-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 15-story mixed-use apartment building at the northwest corner of East 80th Street and Lexington Avenue in Manhattan, designed and built between 1929 and 1930 in French Gothic and Tudor Revival styles.","why_significant":"It is argued to be a largely intact luxury apartment house with high artistic value in its exterior design and interior plan, and the work of master architect Rosario Candela. It is also significant for its prominent residents, including a conductor-composer, a UN human rights representative, a broadcasting executive, an author and a national security advisor.","narrative":"Standing at the corner of East 80th Street and Lexington Avenue, this 15-story apartment building was designed by Rosario Candela and completed in August 1930. Steel-reinforced masonry construction is clad in limestone at the base and brick above, with terra cotta cornices, Tudor-arched entrance, gargoyles, crenellated terrace walls and an ornate water tower enclosure that reflect French Gothic and Tudor Revival design. Three stores line Lexington Avenue, and a lobby with marble floors serves apartments arranged with public rooms, private quarters and servants' areas kept separate. The building is recognized for its architecture, since Candela's symmetrical floor plans and imaginative treatment of penthouses and water towers influenced the New York skyline. It is also noted for its social history, having housed figures such as conductor Walter Damrosch, diplomat Mary Pillsbury Lord, author Edward Streeter and adviser McGeorge Bundy. The exterior and public interiors remain largely unchanged.","period_of_significance":"1929-1960","architect_builder":"Candela, Rosario","architectural_style":"Late 19th & 20th Century Revivals: Late Gothic Revival (with Tudor Revival and French Gothic Revival elements)","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Still in use as multiple dwellings with ground-floor stores and a doctor's office; windows replaced in 2005 to match original profiles, and most kitchens and bathrooms updated.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:48.751102-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/10000553.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/10000553/a90ce64f9a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/10000553/a90ce64f9a-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:133_East_80th_St_NYC.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:133_East_80th_St_NYC.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75319317","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/133_East_80th_Street","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16559137"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/manhattan/building-at-133-east-80th-street-10000553/"}