{"nrhp_refnum":"72001456","name":"Fish, Hamilton, House","other_names":["Stuyvesant-Fish House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"21 Stuyvesant St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Manhattan","state":"NY","lat":40.73011402000006,"lon":-73.98854998922226,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1972-07-31","is_nhl":true,"nhl_designated_date":"1975-05-15","areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A Federal-style brick town house at 21 Stuyvesant Street in Manhattan, New York City, built in 1804 by Peter Stuyvesant for his daughter Elizabeth on her marriage to Nicholas Fish.","why_significant":"It represents the type of town house built in New York City during the Federal era at the start of the 19th century, and few such houses survive in original condition. It is also associated with Nicholas Fish, a Revolutionary War officer and Federalist, and is the birthplace of his son Hamilton Fish, who became Governor of New York, U.S. Senator and Secretary of State.","narrative":"Built in 1804 at 21 Stuyvesant Street in Manhattan, this three-and-a-half-story brick town house shows what a well-built Federal-era home in New York City looked like. Peter Stuyvesant, a great-grandson of the last Dutch Director-General of New Netherland, built it for his daughter Elizabeth and her husband Nicholas Fish, on land granted to his ancestor in 1651. The three-bay house has Flemish bond brickwork, splayed stone lintels, a pitched roof with two arched dormers, and original ironwork at the stoop and areaway. Inside, the stairway, hall archway and ceiling decorations survive. Nicholas Fish was a Revolutionary War officer and friend of Alexander Hamilton, and the house hosted General Lafayette in 1824. Their son Hamilton Fish was born here in 1808 and later served as Governor of New York, U.S. Senator and Secretary of State. The house is valued both for its architecture and for these associations.","period_of_significance":"19th Century; specific date 1804","architect_builder":"Built by Peter Stuyvesant; architect unknown","architectural_style":"Federal","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed in excellent condition, unaltered and on its original site; restored in 1967; the form checks both occupied and private residence use.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:39.087636-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/72001456.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72001456/cbe4f98944-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72001456/cbe4f98944-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Beyond My Ken","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stuyvesant-Fish_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Beyond My Ken</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stuyvesant-Fish_House.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"74001276","name":"St. Mark's Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/new-york/st-marks-historic-district-74001276/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75319503","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton_Fish_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5644943"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/manhattan/fish-hamilton-house-72001456/"}