{"nrhp_refnum":"73001215","name":"Charlton-King-Vandam Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Varick, Vandam, MacDougal and King Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Manhattan","state":"NY","lat":40.72739288950007,"lon":-74.00367056368033,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1973-07-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A roughly five-acre residential historic district in Manhattan, New York City, centered on Charlton, King and Vandam Streets between Varick and MacDougal Streets, developed mostly in the 1820s.","why_significant":"The district is an exceptionally well preserved cross-section of old New York, with some of the finest Federal and Greek Revival town houses in the city. It is what remains of a plan mapped in 1797 on the former Richmond Hill estate and almost fully built between 1820 and 1829. The single-decade development gave the streets a continuity and homogeneity that survives today.","narrative":"Charlton, King and Vandam Streets in Manhattan form a small residential enclave of Federal and Greek Revival town houses. The land was once the Richmond Hill estate, site of a mansion used by George Washington as headquarters and later owned by Aaron Burr. Burr laid out city lots in 1797, and after his departure from the city John Jacob Astor took over the property. The mansion was rolled down the hill to Charlton and Varick Streets and used as a theatre, the hill was leveled, and local builders put up speculative houses, mostly in the early and mid-1820s. After an 1840 fire, Greek Revival houses replaced four Federal ones on Charlton Street's north side. Early residents included builders, lawyers and merchants, and many houses stayed in the same families for generations. Commercial buildings and trucking arrived at the Varick Street corners in the 1920s, yet the streets kept their domestic character. Original steps, ironwork, dormers and doorways survive, and the district is valued as a homogeneous neighborhood of rare architectural merit.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Local builders erected the first houses as speculations; Minard Lafever is mentioned only as a stylistic association for 34 King Street.","architectural_style":"Federal and Greek Revival town houses","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition is marked good and altered; the area remains a residential community with many refurbished, owner-occupied houses.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:38.948513-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/73001215.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73001215/f6bd40423a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73001215/f6bd40423a-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Beyond My Ken/Below","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:35_%26_37_Charlton_Street.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Beyond My Ken/Below</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:35_%26_37_Charlton_Street.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"14000026","name":"South Village Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/new-york/south-village-historic-district-14000026/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75319372","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlton%E2%80%93King%E2%80%93Vandam_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5086283"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/manhattan/charlton-king-vandam-historic-district-73001215/"}