{"nrhp_refnum":"66000534","name":"Arthur, Chester A., House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"123 Lexington Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Manhattan","state":"NY","lat":40.74275490750006,"lon":-73.98207186226121,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1966-10-15","is_nhl":true,"nhl_designated_date":"1965-01-12","areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A five-story brownstone row house at 123 Lexington Avenue in New York City, home of President Chester A. Arthur. The form gives no construction date or architect.","why_significant":"The house is where Chester A. Arthur, 21st President, lived and where he died on November 16, 1886, after leaving office. Arthur signed the 1883 civil service reform law, and the Advisory Board selected this house over his other residences as the best commemoration of his role in United States history.","narrative":"This five-story brownstone row house at 123 Lexington Avenue in New York City was the home of Chester Alan Arthur, the 21st President of the United States. Built in the Romano-Tuscan mode, it has a massive bracketed cornice, round-arched windows linked by string courses, and more elaborate second-floor windows with full entablatures. Arthur returned here after leaving the White House in 1885 and died in the house on November 16, 1886. He became President after James Garfield's death in 1881 and, despite his machine-politics background, supported civil service reform, signing the 1883 law that removed many federal jobs from the spoils list. Reviewers found that none of the Arthur houses has exceptional historical value, but the New York house was chosen as the best commemoration of his role in national history. The building has been altered considerably, with a shop on the ground floor, apartments above, a changed entrance and white-painted walls.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Romano-Tuscan","criteria":[],"status_note":"Poor condition and heavily altered; the ground floor holds a grocery store, a beauty shop is above it, and the upper three floors are apartments. The original entrance has been removed and the exterior painted white.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:39.049884-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/66000534_NHL.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/66000534/477af79912-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/66000534/477af79912-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"DLC3172","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chester_A._Arthur_home.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">DLC3172</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chester_A._Arthur_home.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75315962","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chester_A._Arthur_Home","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5093438"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/manhattan/arthur-chester-a-house-66000534/"}