{"nrhp_refnum":"75001203","name":"City Pier A","other_names":[],"category":"structure","location":{"address":"S end of Battery Pl. at Hudson River","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Manhattan","state":"NY","lat":40.70436224000008,"lon":-74.01780425399994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1975-06-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"City Pier A is a concrete-founded pier, 45 feet wide and extending 285 feet into the Hudson River at the southern tip of Manhattan in Battery Park. It carries a two-to-three story building with a four-story clock tower, constructed 1885-1886 for the New York City Department of Docks.","why_significant":"The nomination presents Pier A as a landmark in the city's economic, technological and architectural history. It was headquarters for the agencies regulating the nation's busiest waterfront. Its concrete foundation is an early American example of the material's use, and the pier is one of the few remaining reminders of Lower Manhattan's seaward orientation.","narrative":"Pier A projects 285 feet into the Hudson River from the edge of Battery Park at the southern tip of Manhattan. Begun in 1885 and substantially complete by May 1886, it was designed by Engineer-in-Chief G.S. Greene, Jr., of the city's Department of Docks as headquarters for the Docks Department and the Harbor Police. Its foundations combine bagged concrete placed by divers, concrete blocks and granite sub-piers, with concrete arches forming the deck, an early American use of the material. The building on the pier has a fireproof inshore end for records and a wood-frame remainder sheathed in galvanized iron, plus a 70-foot lookout tower. It was extended in 1900 and gained a third story in 1904. A memorial clock that strikes ship bells was added to the tower in 1918. Since 1960 the pier has housed a marine fire company. It is valued as a reminder of the harbor's commercial past and as a human-scale landmark beside Battery Park.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"G. S. Greene, Jr., Engineer-in-Chief, New York City Department of Docks; C.O. Brown, contractor","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Used as a fire station (Marine Company No. 1) for the Hudson River waterfront since 1960; condition listed as good and altered.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:40.105728-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/75001203.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75001203/1a666520e1-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75001203/1a666520e1-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Joe Mabel (on Flickr as Joe Mabel from Seattle, US); cropped by Beyond My Ken (talk) 05:03, 21 December 2013 (UTC)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Manhattan_-_Pier_A_from_the_harbor_01_(9440395329)_crop.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Joe Mabel (on Flickr as Joe Mabel from Seattle, US); cropped by Beyond My Ken (talk) 05:03, 21 December 2013 (UTC)</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:Manhattan_-_Pier_A_from_the_harbor_01_(9440395329)_crop.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75319417","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_Pier_A","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5123366"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/manhattan/city-pier-a-75001203/"}