{"nrhp_refnum":"76001251","name":"Tilden, Samuel J., House","other_names":["National Arts Club"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"14--15 Gramercy Park South","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Manhattan","state":"NY","lat":40.73767552800004,"lon":-73.98680289622689,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1976-05-11","is_nhl":true,"nhl_designated_date":"1976-05-11","areas_of_significance":["Art","Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A four-story pink sandstone townhouse pair at 14-15 Gramercy Park South in Manhattan, New York City, joined into one residence by Samuel J. Tilden in the 1860s and later remodeled in Victorian Gothic style by Calvert Vaux around 1874.","why_significant":"It is the only known surviving building closely associated with Samuel J. Tilden, a central figure in the disputed 1876 presidential election and the Compromise of 1877 that effectively ended Reconstruction. It is also cited as a leading example of Victorian Gothic residential architecture, and has housed the National Arts Club since 1906.","narrative":"Two townhouses on Gramercy Park South, numbers 14 and 15, were combined into a single interconnecting residence by Samuel Jones Tilden, who bought them in the 1860s and lived there until shortly before his death in 1886. Around 1874 Calvert Vaux remodeled the facade, which had apparently been Greek Revival, into Victorian Gothic. The four-story building is faced with pink sandstone and decorated with multicolored stone belt courses, pointed-arch windows, and small sculpted heads of literary figures. Inside, original paneling, parquet floors, and stained glass by John La Farge survive. Tilden was a wealthy corporation lawyer who helped bring down the Tweed Ring, served as New York governor, and lost the disputed 1876 presidential election, a dispute that led to the Compromise of 1877 and the end of Reconstruction. This is the only known surviving building closely tied to him. The National Arts Club acquired it in 1906 and added a studio building at the rear.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1860-ca. 1885","architect_builder":"Calvert Vaux","architectural_style":"Victorian Gothic","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied and in use as the headquarters of the National Arts Club, with a museum and recreation area in the basement and artists' studios on the upper floors; condition described as altered, on its original site.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:39.002489-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/76001251_NHL.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76001251/b8b41fe701-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76001251/b8b41fe701-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Dmadeo","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:National-arts-club.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Dmadeo</a>, <a href=\"http://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:National-arts-club.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75315844","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_J._Tilden_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5680258"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/manhattan/tilden-samuel-j-house-76001251/"}