{"nrhp_refnum":"14000769","name":"Astor Row Houses","other_names":[],"category":null,"location":{"address":"8-62 W. 130th St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Manhattan","state":"NY","lat":null,"lon":null,"geom_source":null},"listed_date":"1982-08-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":[],"significance_levels":[],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A group of twenty-eight three-story brick row houses on the north side of West 130th Street between Fifth and Lenox Avenues in Harlem, New York City, built 1880-1883 and designed by Charles Buek.","why_significant":"The houses form an unusual and cohesive group that conveys Harlem's change from a rural area into a popular middle-class suburb. Their low brick fronts, Eastlake-inspired wooden porches and neo-Grec incised details differed from the brownstones typical of the period. The block also retains a high level of integrity and good condition.","narrative":"Twenty-eight brick row houses line one side of West 130th Street in Harlem, between Fifth and Lenox Avenues. Built between 1880 and 1883 on speculation for William Astor, they were designed in their first phase by architect Charles Buek, and later houses followed his scheme. The first eight, numbers 8-22, stand in separate pairs, while the rest form a continuous row with deep recesses between pairs. Each house is three stories and two bays wide, with light stone trim, shouldered lintels bearing incised designs, brick dentil cornices and quatrefoil friezes. Most keep their full-width wooden porches with thin columns, brackets and spindles. At the time, Harlem was drawing middle and upper middle-class residents from lower Manhattan, and most new buildings were brownstones with classical details. The low brick fronts, Eastlake-inspired porches and neo-Grec ornament made this row unusual. Its cohesiveness and integrity preserve a sense of Harlem as a nineteenth-century suburban development. Some porches, doors and fences have been lost or replaced.","period_of_significance":"1880-1883","architect_builder":"Charles Buek","architectural_style":"Eastlake-inspired porches with neo-Grec incised detailing","criteria":[],"status_note":"Marked occupied and in private residential use; condition listed as good, deteriorated and altered, with some porches, doors and iron fences changed or lost.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:41.268094-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/14000769.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75319273","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/manhattan/astor-row-houses-14000769/"}