{"nrhp_refnum":"75001201","name":"Association Residence Nursing Home","other_names":["Association for the Relief of Respectable Aged Indigent Fema"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"891 Amsterdam Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Manhattan","state":"NY","lat":40.79868400600003,"lon":-73.96662831299994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1975-02-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story red brick former nursing home at 891 Amsterdam Avenue, at 104th Street in Manhattan, built 1881-83 and designed by Richard Morris Hunt, with a 1907 addition.","why_significant":"It is a visual landmark on the upper west side and illustrates the charitable concerns of wealthy 19th-century New Yorkers. It is one of the few remaining works of Richard Morris Hunt in New York City and is believed to be the only surviving example of his institutional style in the city.","narrative":"Built between 1881 and 1883 at the corner of Amsterdam Avenue and 104th Street in Manhattan, this red brick building was a home for elderly women run by the Association for the Relief of Respectable Aged Indigent Females, a charity chartered in 1814. Richard Morris Hunt designed it, and John J. Tucker built it. The C-shaped structure rises three stories from a brownstone basement to a slate mansard roof, with a covered brownstone entrance porch and projecting bays topped by gables and a pyramidal corner spire. A 1907 addition by architect George Rich extended the west front and nearly duplicated Hunt's design; its chapel held seven Tiffany stained-glass windows, now in a Florida museum. The building is valued as one of the few remaining Hunt works in the city and probably his only surviving institutional design there. When documented, it stood unoccupied, with an intact interior including a ceramic tile hall floor.","period_of_significance":"1881-83 (1907, addition)","architect_builder":"Richard Morris Hunt (architect); John J. Tucker (builder); George Rich (architect of 1907 addition)","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as an unoccupied nursing home in good condition; the interior is largely intact though filled with debris, with some broken windows and doors and two missing mantels.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:39.246803-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/75001201.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75001201/b2eab08fc4-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75001201/b2eab08fc4-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NYC_Hostel_104th.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NYC_Hostel_104th.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75319271","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_Residence_Nursing_Home","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4809305"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/manhattan/association-residence-nursing-home-75001201/"}