{"nrhp_refnum":"72000869","name":"Dakota Apartments","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1 W. 72nd St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Manhattan","state":"NY","lat":40.77678134300007,"lon":-73.97615200168273,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1972-04-26","is_nhl":true,"nhl_designated_date":"1976-12-08","areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national","state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"An apartment building at 1 West 72nd Street, overlooking the northern end of Central Park in Manhattan, completed in 1884 for Edward S. Clark and designed by Henry Janeway Hardenbergh.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it one of the earliest and most distinguished apartment houses in the United States. Its richly varied roofline makes it a prime example of late 19th century picturesque eclecticism with a German Renaissance flavor. It has been remarkably well maintained and never extensively remodeled, so it looks much as it did in the 1880s.","narrative":"Completed in 1884 at 1 West 72nd Street, the Dakota is a large apartment house facing the northern end of Central Park in Manhattan. Architect Henry Janeway Hardenbergh designed it for Edward S. Clark, heir to the Singer Sewing Machine fortune, who helped start development of the Upper West Side. It rises seven stories above a basement, with two more stories under a steep slate roof crowded with gables, dormers, oriels and domed bay windows. Walls are yellow brick over a sandstone base, with load-bearing masonry and thick concrete floors that make the building unusually quiet. Its eight original hydraulic elevators still operate, though with new cabs. Clark's colleagues teased that building so far uptown was like building in Dakota territory, which gave the building its name. It was listed as one of the earliest and finest apartment houses in the country, and it remains largely unchanged since the 1880s, apart from the loss of its original gardens and tennis and croquet courts.","period_of_significance":"19th Century (completed 1884)","architect_builder":"Henry Janeway Hardenbergh (architect)","architectural_style":"Late 19th century picturesque eclecticism with German Renaissance flavor","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as occupied, in excellent condition, and in use as an apartment building; altered only slightly, with the original grounds, gardens and courts no longer extant.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:38.755683-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/72000869.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72000869/218e2f5d8f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72000869/218e2f5d8f-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"David Shankbone","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1_West_72nd_Street_(The_Dakota)_by_David_Shankbone.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">David Shankbone</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1_West_72nd_Street_(The_Dakota)_by_David_Shankbone.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"82001189","name":"Central Park West Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/new-york/central-park-west-historic-district-82001189/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75319437","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dakota","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q829806"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/manhattan/dakota-apartments-72000869/"}