{"nrhp_refnum":"78001887","name":"WAVERTREE","other_names":["Southgate"],"category":"structure","location":{"address":"Pier 17, foot of Fulton St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Manhattan","state":"NY","lat":40.70567156900006,"lon":-74.00239612399997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1978-06-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Engineering","Transportation"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Wavertree is an iron-hulled, full-rigged sailing ship, 293 feet long and 40 feet wide, built in 1885 by Oswald, Mordaunt, and Company of Southampton, England. It is moored at Pier 17, foot of Fulton Street, in Manhattan.","why_significant":"It is one of the last 19th-century square-rigged merchant sailing ships capable of being restored. It represents the type of vessel that used the South Street piers from about 1880 to 1910. British-built iron and steel ships dominated foreign trade in the late 1800s, and no suitable American-built vessels survive to illustrate the era.","narrative":"Wavertree is a 293-foot iron sailing ship berthed at Pier 17 at the foot of Fulton Street in Manhattan. Built in Southampton, England, in 1885 by Oswald, Mordaunt, and Company, she was designed to carry jute from India to Europe. The jute market collapsed soon after, so she hauled whatever bulk cargoes were available, making 41 major ocean passages in 25 years, 16 of them to or from American ports. She visited New York in the 1890s. Later she became a storage hulk in 1911 and a sand barge in 1948, and restoration began in 1968. The hull below the deck line is original, as are the officers' quarters, the wheel and steering gear, and the fore and mizzen lowermasts. She is valued as one of the last restorable square-rigged merchant ships of her era and as a representative of the vessels that once crowded the South Street piers. No suitable American-built ships survive to tell that story.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"Oswald, Mordaunt, and Co.","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition listed as good and altered. The hull is partially restored since 1968 and the ship is in permanent berth at the South Street Seaport Museum.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:39.163999-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/78001887.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78001887/d1cc6096eb-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78001887/d1cc6096eb-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Andy C","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:South_Street_Seaport_Boat.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Andy C</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_Boat.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"78001884","name":"South Street Seaport Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/new-york/south-street-seaport-historic-district-78001884/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75320051","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavertree_(ship)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2552894"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/manhattan/wavertree-78001887/"}