{"nrhp_refnum":"78001872","name":"Gilsey Hotel","other_names":["Gilsey House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1200 Broadway","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Manhattan","state":"NY","lat":40.745996681000065,"lon":-73.98829101399997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1978-12-14","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"An eight-story cast-iron hotel building at 1200 Broadway, at the northeast corner of West 29th Street in Manhattan, designed by Stephen D. Hatch in 1871 for Peter Gilsey.","why_significant":"It is a late, elaborate example of commercial Renaissance and Second Empire design and an important work in the history of cast-iron architecture, using iron to imitate stone. It brought together patron Peter Gilsey and ironworks founder Daniel Badger. It is the oldest surviving building in New York City readily identifiable as a hotel and Hatch's finest work.","narrative":"Rising eight stories at Broadway and West 29th Street, the Gilsey Hotel was designed by Stephen D. Hatch in 1871 for the merchant Peter Gilsey. Its five-story cast-iron front, topped by a three-story slate mansard roof, uses classical motifs such as pilasters, pediments, segmental arches and swags, and the iron imitates stone. The ironwork came from Daniel Badger's Architectural Iron Works, whose name remains on the West 29th Street facade. The hotel was among the most popular in the city during the 1870s and 1880s, but fashionable lodging moved uptown and Broadway turned commercial. In 1911 the interior was gutted and converted to loft use, and the ground floor was later altered heavily. The upper facade and roof remain largely intact. The building is the oldest in New York City readily recognizable as a hotel, Hatch's finest work, and the most important cast-iron structure built north of Twenty-third Street in the nineteenth century. It stood vacant at the time of listing.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"Stephen D. Hatch","architectural_style":"Second Empire / commercial Renaissance","criteria":[],"status_note":"Vacant after the last tenant left; the interior was gutted and converted to lofts in 1911, and the ground floor has been extensively altered.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:39.867817-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/78001872.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78001872/0cb51f0d2d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78001872/0cb51f0d2d-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Beyond My Ken","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gilsey_House_from_down_Broadway.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Beyond My Ken</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:Gilsey_House_from_down_Broadway.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75319548","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilsey_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5562592"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/manhattan/gilsey-hotel-78001872/"}