{"nrhp_refnum":"13000039","name":"Murray Hill Historic District (Boundary Increase)","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"E. 34th, 35th, 36th, 37th, 38th & 39th Sts., Lexington, Madison & Park Aves.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Manhattan","county":"Manhattan","state":"NY","lat":40.75143418700006,"lon":-73.97689766675634,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2013-02-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History","Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic residential district in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, roughly bounded by East 35th and East 39th Streets, Park Avenue and Lexington Avenue. It has 88 contributing and 12 non-contributing buildings, mostly mid-19th-century brownstone row houses.","why_significant":"The form describes the district as one of the last intact 19th-century residential districts in Midtown Manhattan. It contains some of the city's oldest surviving brownstone-fronted row houses, mostly Italianate in style, which give the area a strong sense of place. Later apartment houses, hotels and a church on Park Avenue reflect the neighborhood's subsequent development.","narrative":"Five blocks of Midtown Manhattan between Park and Lexington Avenues, from East 35th to East 39th Streets, make up this residential district. Its core is a set of brownstone-fronted row houses built mostly in the 1850s, many in an Italianate style. Each block is characterized by a row of perhaps a dozen such houses, although many have been altered with stucco, replacement windows or changed cornices. Along Park Avenue, early 20th century apartment houses and hotels in restrained neo-Classical and neo-Georgian styles show the area's later growth. Notable buildings include a Renaissance Revival mansion designed by Stanford White, a Beaux-Arts mansion by Hoppin & Koen, and the Church of the New Jerusalem, an Italian Renaissance Revival church of 1858-59. The district counts 88 contributing buildings and 12 non-contributing ones, mostly heavily altered row houses. It was listed because it remains one of the last intact 19th-century residential neighborhoods in Midtown.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Includes Stanford White (McKim, Mead & White), Carrere & Hastings, Hoppin & Koen, York & Sawyer, Gambrill and Post; builders include Washington A. Cronk, Samuel W. Cronk, Thomas Kilpatrick and James C. Hoe","architectural_style":"Late Victorian (Italianate, Second Empire, Renaissance Revival); Beaux Arts, Colonial Revival, Classical Revival; neo-Moorish, neo-Romanesque; Art Deco","criteria":[],"status_note":"Buildings remain largely in residential use, some as single-family homes and others divided into apartments, with apartment houses, hotels, churches and a club. Row houses survive with varying integrity.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:48.040198-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/03000997.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75313843","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/manhattan/murray-hill-historic-district-boundary-increase-13000039/"}