{"nrhp_refnum":"73001213","name":"75 Murray Street Building","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"75 Murray St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Manhattan","state":"NY","lat":40.714931285000034,"lon":-74.01066385399997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1973-04-03","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A five-story commercial building at 75 Murray Street in Manhattan, New York City, with a cast-iron front and masonry bearing side and rear walls, dated to 1865.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it an extremely fine Italianate example of 1860s commercial cast-iron architecture and one of New York's handsomest cast-iron buildings. It belongs to a group of cast-iron buildings that made the city a leader in their development. Such buildings influenced the later structural development of the skyscraper.","narrative":"Located at 75 Murray Street in Manhattan, this five-story commercial building dates to 1865 and is recognized for its cast-iron front. The three-bay facade on Murray Street has four large engaged columns at each floor, supporting full entablatures, with repeated arched units between them. Windows carry keystones with human faces on alternating stones, and the upper floors have paired semicircular arches with bull's-eye openings. A low-pitched roof is crowned by a cornice with large and intermediate ornamented brackets. The side and rear walls are masonry, and the floors are timber. Apart from alterations at street level for a storefront and an elevator door, most original features survive. The building is described as an Italianate example of 1860s commercial cast-iron design, with a facade reminiscent of late 15th century Venetian palaces. It represents the cast-iron buildings of downtown New York that predated the steel-frame skyscraper and influenced its development.","period_of_significance":"19th Century (specific date 1865)","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Italianate commercial cast-iron architecture","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition listed as excellent and altered; street-level changes were made for a storefront and elevator door, but most original features are intact. Marked as occupied.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:38.925403-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/73001213.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73001213/ac240318a8-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73001213/ac240318a8-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Beyond My Ken","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hopkins_Store_75_Murray_Street.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:Hopkins_Store_75_Murray_Street.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75319233","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/75_Murray_Street","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4643425"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/manhattan/75-murray-street-building-73001213/"}