{"nrhp_refnum":"73001220","name":"Jumel Terrace Historic District","other_names":["See Also:Morris-Jumel Mansion"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"W. 160th and 162nd Sts. between St. Nicholas and Edgecombe Aves.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Manhattan","state":"NY","lat":40.83495078650003,"lon":-73.93881731437288,"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 residential historic district of almost fifty row houses and one apartment house in Manhattan, on West 160th to 162nd Streets between St. Nicholas and Edgecombe Avenues, surrounding the Morris-Jumel Mansion and Roger Morris Park. Most buildings date from 1882 to 1909.","why_significant":"The district gives a dignified, largely homogeneous setting to the Roger Morris-Jumel Mansion, one of the city's most historic buildings. It is architecturally significant because most buildings are the original and only construction on their sites, including early wooden houses and masonry dwellings transitional from Romanesque Revival to Queen Anne, plus neo-Renaissance examples. The whole development took place in under thirty years.","narrative":"Surrounding the Morris-Jumel Mansion and Roger Morris Park in Manhattan, this district holds almost fifty row houses and one apartment house along West 160th and 162nd Streets, Jumel Terrace and Sylvan Terrace. The area was farmland until 1882, when two rows of wooden houses were built facing each other on Sylvan Terrace, a former private carriage lane. Brick houses showing Queen Anne influence followed on West 160th Street in 1890-91, Romanesque Revival stone houses on Jumel Terrace and West 162nd Street in 1895-96, Classical Revival houses in 1902, and a brick and limestone apartment house in 1909. Architect Walter H.C. Hornum designed the stone houses on the north side of West 162nd Street. The district matters because nearly every building is the original and only construction on its site, and because it provides a consistent setting for the mansion, which served as George Washington's headquarters in 1776. Its whole development took place within thirty years.","period_of_significance":"c. 1765, 1882-1909","architect_builder":"Walter H.C. Hornum (architect of the stone houses on the north side of West 162nd Street, built for the Watkins brothers)","architectural_style":"Romanesque Revival, Queen Anne, neo-Renaissance/Classical Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition marked good and altered; the form marks the district as occupied and in use as private residences and park. Many Sylvan Terrace houses are now covered in stucco, metal siding or imitation brick.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:39.005285-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/73001220.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73001220/af49607308-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73001220/af49607308-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Beyond My Ken","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jumel_Terrace_Historic_District_439-451_West_162nd_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:Jumel_Terrace_Historic_District_439-451_West_162nd_Street.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"100011048","name":"Dominican Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/new-york/dominican-historic-district-100011048/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75319664","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumel_Terrace_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6310962"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/manhattan/jumel-terrace-historic-district-73001220/"}