{"nrhp_refnum":"72000875","name":"Third Judicial District Courthouse","other_names":["Jefferson Market Courthouse","Jefferson Market Branch New York"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"425 Avenue of the Americas","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Manhattan","state":"NY","lat":40.734598152000046,"lon":-73.99919036740481,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1972-11-09","is_nhl":true,"nhl_designated_date":"1977-12-22","areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Jefferson Market Courthouse (Third Judicial District Courthouse) at 425 Avenue of the Americas in Greenwich Village, Manhattan. Designed in 1875 by Frederick Clarke Withers and completed in 1877, it is a brick Victorian Gothic building with a corner tower.","why_significant":"The nomination presents it as a fine example of English-inspired Victorian Gothic architecture, notable for its variegated materials, carved stone, stained glass and picturesque asymmetry. In 1885 a poll of architects ranked it among the finest buildings in the country. Its preservation, after it ceased to be a courthouse, through a campaign by local residents and conversion to a library is also noted.","narrative":"Jefferson Market Courthouse is a triangular, three-and-a-half-story brick building at the meeting of two streets in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, topped by a tall clock tower at its northern point. Frederick Clark Withers, an English-born architect who worked with Calvert Vaux, designed it in 1875 as part of a civic complex that also held a jail, now gone. It was completed in 1877 on the site of the old Jefferson Market. Red pressed brick, yellow-gray sandstone bands and a gray granite base give the walls a varied color and texture, while carved stone, stained glass, plasterwork and woodwork enrich the exterior and interior. In 1885 a poll of architects named it one of the finest buildings in the country. After 1945 it housed temporary city agencies. A local preservation campaign led to a restoration by Giorgio Cavaglieri, and it now serves as a branch of the New York Public Library, with its grand stone staircase retained.","period_of_significance":"19th Century; completed 1877","architect_builder":"Frederick Clark Withers (partner of Calvert Vaux); restoration for library use by Giorgio Cavaglieri","architectural_style":"Victorian Gothic (English-inspired)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition listed as excellent and altered; converted to the Greenwich Village Branch of the New York Public Library after a restoration. It ceased to be a courthouse by 1945.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:38.715779-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/72000875.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72000875/9d127344b6-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72000875/9d127344b6-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.5","author":"User:Aude; cropped by Beyond My Ken (talk) 02:58, 14 January 2013 (UTC)","credit_html":"User:Aude; cropped by Beyond My Ken (talk) 02:58, 14 January 2013 (UTC), CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jefferson_market_crop.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"79001604","name":"Greenwich Village Historic District (Additional Documentation)","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/new-york/greenwich-village-historic-district-additional-documentation-79001604/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75319985","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Market_Library","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q502505"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/manhattan/third-judicial-district-courthouse-72000875/"}