{"nrhp_refnum":"75001205","name":"Gracie, Archibald, Mansion","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"East End Ave. at 88th St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Manhattan","state":"NY","lat":40.77630884000007,"lon":-73.94291933399995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1975-05-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story frame Federal style country house, now the mayoral residence, in Carl Schurz Park at East End Avenue and 88th Street, Manhattan. Archibald Gracie built it in 1799 and enlarged it in 1811.","why_significant":"The nomination presents it as a fine example of Federal period domestic architecture that still keeps the air of an early 19th century country house. It also stands on a site tied to the Revolutionary War and has played a continuing part in New York City's social, political and cultural life. Merchant Archibald Gracie entertained notable guests there, and it has been the mayor's official residence since 1943.","narrative":"Gracie Mansion is a white clapboard, two-story Federal style country house on a point of land jutting into the East River, within Carl Schurz Park in Manhattan. Merchant and shipowner Archibald Gracie built the square frame house in 1799 and enlarged it in 1811, adding porches, balustrades with chinoiserie lattice, and a fanlight doorway that some attribute to Major Charles Pierre L'Enfant. The site had earlier held the Walton family's country house, destroyed in 1776, and was fortified during the Revolution. After Gracie's business failed in 1819, later owners held the house until the city bought it in 1891. It declined, then was restored in the 1920s, housed the Museum of the City of New York from 1926 to 1932, and became the mayor's official residence in 1943. Architect Mott B. Schmidt designed an entertaining wing in 1965-66. The house is valued as a fine example of Federal domestic architecture.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Archibald Gracie (builder/owner); doorway attributed by some to Major Charles Pierre L'Enfant; 1965-66 addition by Mott B. Schmidt","architectural_style":"Federal","criteria":[],"status_note":"Excellent condition, occupied, altered; serves as the official residence of the Mayor of New York City, with a modern wing added 1965-66.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:39.342816-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/75001205.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75001205/2da715830a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75001205/2da715830a-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Jim.henderson","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gracie_Mansion_snow_jeh.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jim.henderson</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:Gracie_Mansion_snow_jeh.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75319556","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gracie_Mansion","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3025091"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/manhattan/gracie-archibald-mansion-75001205/"}