{"nrhp_refnum":"76001242","name":"LaGrange Terrace","other_names":["Colonnade Row"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"428--434 Lafayette St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Manhattan","state":"NY","lat":40.72954661600005,"lon":-73.99232948899999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1976-12-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A surviving group of four Greek Revival rowhouses at 428-434 Lafayette Street in Manhattan, originally a row of nine houses built in 1832-1833 and known as LaGrange Terrace or Colonnade Row.","why_significant":"It is described as one of the earliest and most spectacular examples of Greek Revival domestic architecture in New York City. It also shows the monumental blockfront, with many townhouses unified behind one grand colonnaded facade. It helped popularize the Greek Revival style among the city's builders and residents.","narrative":"Colonnade Row, originally called LaGrange Terrace, is a group of four surviving Greek Revival rowhouses at 428-434 Lafayette Street in Manhattan. Seth Geer built the row in 1832-1833 as nine marble-faced houses unified behind a two-story colonnade of 27 columns, a rusticated base and a heavy bronze cornice. The design is generally attributed to Alexander Jackson Davis, though the form notes no documentary evidence for this and also mentions Robert Higham. When completed it stood among fields, yet it became a fashionable address, with residents such as John Jacob Astor and David Gardner, whose daughter married President John Tyler. The row is considered important for showing how a block of houses could be designed as one monumental streetscape. Fashion moved north by the 1860s, and in 1901 the five southernmost houses were demolished for a warehouse. The remaining houses keep much of their facade and interior detail, despite ground-floor changes and added roofs.","period_of_significance":"1832-1833","architect_builder":"Built by Seth Geer; attributed to Alexander J. Davis or Robert Higham","architectural_style":"Greek Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Four of the original nine houses survive; the ground floors hold a restaurant, theatre and boutique, and sloping roofs with dormers were added to numbers 428 and 430.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:39.024701-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/76001242.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76001242/b7cd4e490b-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76001242/b7cd4e490b-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 2.0","author":"ajay_suresh","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Colonnade_Row_(51661214380).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">ajay_suresh</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Colonnade_Row_(51661214380).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75319674","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonnade_Row","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8348030"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/manhattan/lagrange-terrace-76001242/"}