{"nrhp_refnum":"78001884","name":"South Street Seaport Historic District","other_names":["See Also:South Street Seaport"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by East River, Brooklyn Bridge, Fletcher Allry, Pearl, and South Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Manhattan","state":"NY","lat":40.70746992100007,"lon":-74.00180081533964,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1978-12-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Historic - Non-Aboriginal","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A seven-and-a-half-block extension of the South Street Seaport Historic District in lower Manhattan, including two piers, roughly bounded by Fletcher Alley, Pearl, Dover and South Streets and running up to the Brooklyn Bridge and the East River.","why_significant":"The extension completes the boundaries of the Seaport district and takes in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century buildings similar in history and architectural style to the areas already listed. It also holds archeological value, since successive landfill from the late 17th century created sealed deposits of period rubbish. The Captain Joseph Rose House at 273 Water Street, built about 1773, is described as the oldest commercial structure in New York City.","narrative":"This seven-and-a-half-block area of lower Manhattan, with two piers on the East River, extends the South Street Seaport district to its final boundaries. Pearl Street marks the western edge because all land to the east was created by landfill between the late 17th and early 19th centuries. The Brooklyn Bridge bounds it on the north. Buildings are mostly three to six stories of brick, with earlier walls in handmade brick laid in Flemish bond and later ones in machine-made brick. Greek Revival granite store fronts and cast-iron fronts survive. Notable sites include the Captain Joseph Rose House at 273 Water Street, built about 1773 and called the oldest commercial structure in the city, though fire left only parts of its facade. A wooden building at Dover and Water Streets is the last wooden frame structure south of Canal Street. The sealed landfill deposits also give the area archeological importance.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival store fronts, later nineteenth-century cast-iron fronts, and Romanesque Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition marked excellent, good, fair and deteriorated. Area is still used commercially and some buildings have been demolished; the Captain Joseph Rose House has suffered a fire and only parts of its facade remain.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:39.930295-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/78001884.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78001884/4e238c72bc-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78001884/4e238c72bc-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Gryffindor","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:South_Street_Seaport_002.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Gryffindor</a>, <a href=\"https://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:South_Street_Seaport_002.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"72000883","name":"South Street Seaport","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/new-york/south-street-seaport-72000883/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75319919","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Street_Seaport","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q223000"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/manhattan/south-street-seaport-historic-district-78001884/"}