{"nrhp_refnum":"74001275","name":"Salmagundi Club","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"47 5th Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Manhattan","state":"NY","lat":40.734148368000035,"lon":-73.98290439099998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1974-07-25","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Art","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A four-story brownstone-faced Anglo-Italianate townhouse at 47 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, erected in 1852-53 for Irad Hawley and now used as the clubhouse of the Salmagundi Club.","why_significant":"The nomination presents it as one of the earliest stately Anglo-Italianate townhouses on lower Fifth Avenue and one of the first with an entirely brownstone facade. It is a good, well-preserved example of the style in urban residences. Its interior, including the double parlors and Gothic Revival dining room, is among the few surviving Italianate rooms in the grand manner in New York City.","narrative":"Built in 1852-53 for Irad Hawley, president of the Pennsylvania coal company, this four-story townhouse at 47 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan is an early example of the Anglo-Italianate style that replaced the waning Greek Revival for high-style building. Its smooth brownstone facade sits above a rusticated basement, with ornament concentrated around the main-floor openings: an arched entrance with a pediment on acanthus consoles, modillioned window lintels, and iron balconies. It once belonged to a row of elegant homes of wealthy merchant families, and is now flanked by taller buildings. The Salmagundi Club, founded in 1871 as an artists' club, bought the house in 1917 and has used it as a clubhouse since. Inside, double parlors with Corinthian-columned arches, carved marble mantelpieces and rosewood doors survive, along with a Gothic Revival dining room now serving as part of the gallery, where members' artwork is exhibited.","period_of_significance":"1852-1853","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Anglo-Italianate (with Gothic Revival former dining room)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition listed as excellent, unaltered and on its original site; in use as a private artists' clubhouse and art gallery since 1917.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:39.166724-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/74001275.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74001275/a2e9739cc2-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74001275/a2e9739cc2-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Dmadeo","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Salmagundi-club-47-5th-avenue.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Dmadeo</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Salmagundi-club-47-5th-avenue.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75319878","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salmagundi_Club","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7405383"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/manhattan/salmagundi-club-74001275/"}