{"nrhp_refnum":"79001599","name":"Alwyn Court Apartments","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"180 W. 58th St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Manhattan","state":"NY","lat":40.76600767600007,"lon":-73.97945685499997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-12-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A twelve-story French Renaissance style apartment house at 180 West 58th Street, at the corner of Seventh Avenue, in Manhattan, built 1907-09 to designs by Harde & Short.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it a unique turn-of-the-century apartment house with extensive terra-cotta decoration and one of the earliest luxury apartment houses on the upper west side. It is described as the finest building of its type in New York City. It also reflects the shift of upper-class families from private houses to apartment living and the eclectic taste that followed the 1893 Chicago exposition.","narrative":"Alwyn Court is a twelve-story apartment house at the southeast corner of Seventh Avenue and West 58th Street in Manhattan, built in 1907-09 to designs by Herbert S. Harde and R. Thomas Short. Its stone facade is covered in terra-cotta ornament in an early French Renaissance manner, including Corinthian pilasters, decorated mullions and spandrels, and crowned salamanders, the emblem of Francis the First. A rounded corner bay gives tenants views of two streets. Hedden Construction Company built it for about $900,000, and the use of molded terra-cotta made such rich decoration affordable. It was named for one of its owners, Alwyn Ball, Jr. The building is valued as an early luxury apartment house that helped turn the upper west side from open country into an affluent neighborhood, and as an example of the eclectic taste of the era. Its original suites were emptied during the Depression, and the interior was rebuilt in 1938 with seventy-five apartments inside the original shell.","period_of_significance":"1907-1909","architect_builder":"Harde & Short (Herbert S. Harde and R. Thomas Short), architects; Hedden Construction Company, builder","architectural_style":"French Renaissance","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as in excellent condition and occupied as a private residence; the interior was completely remodelled in 1938 and the entrance was moved to the Seventh Avenue side.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:40.083715-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/79001599.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79001599/9b471a0085-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79001599/9b471a0085-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Gryffindor This panoramic image was created with Autostitch (stitched images may differ from reality).","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alwyn_Court_NYC_2007.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Gryffindor This panoramic image was created with Autostitch (stitched images may differ from reality).</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alwyn_Court_NYC_2007.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75319241","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alwyn_Court","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4738516"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/manhattan/alwyn-court-apartments-79001599/"}