{"nrhp_refnum":"77000958","name":"Hotel Chelsea","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"222 W. 23rd St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Manhattan","state":"NY","lat":40.743071384000075,"lon":-73.99372445599994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1977-12-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Literature","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Hotel Chelsea is an eleven-story, twenty-five bay brick hotel at 222 West 23rd Street in Manhattan, designed and built in 1884 by Hubert, Pirsson & Company and used as a hotel since 1905.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is one of New York's most famous landmarks because many writers and artists lived at or visited it. It also survives as one of the great late nineteenth-century apartment houses in the city, designed by Philip G. Hubert, who is credited with originating the co-operative apartment house in the United States and introducing fireproofing techniques.","narrative":"Hotel Chelsea, at 222 West 23rd Street in Manhattan, is an eleven-story brick building of twenty-five bays, designed and built in 1884 by Hubert, Pirsson and Company. It has operated as a hotel since 1905. The facade is divided into five parts with engaged towers, a slate roof with large chimneys and dormers, and floral cast-iron balconies from the second through eighth floors, made by J.B. and J.M. Cornell. Inside, many apartments keep their original woodwork and high ceilings, and the lobby fireplace and main staircase railing survive. Philip G. Hubert, the chief designing partner, was known for originating the co-operative apartment house in the United States and for introducing fireproofing techniques. The hotel is also recognized for its association with writers and artists, including Mark Twain, Eugene O'Neill, Thomas Wolfe and Dylan Thomas. William Burroughs wrote Naked Lunch there, and Andy Warhol's film The Chelsea Girls was shot there in 1968. It was among the earliest New York City landmarks.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"Hubert, Pirsson & Co.","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Marked as occupied and privately owned, in commercial use; some alterations made to meet safety codes and some storefronts modernized, while the main entrance, lobby fireplace and main staircase railing remain intact.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:39.717897-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/77000958.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/77000958/2cbd82ae49-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/77000958/2cbd82ae49-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Ludmila Zellner Rotbauerová","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kovov%C3%A1_deska_Hotel_Chelsea.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Ludmila Zellner Rotbauerová</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kovov%C3%A1_deska_Hotel_Chelsea.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75319600","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Chelsea","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q240711"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/manhattan/hotel-chelsea-77000958/"}