{"nrhp_refnum":"79001600","name":"Building at 376-380 Lafayette Street","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"376--380 Lafayette Street","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Manhattan","state":"NY","lat":40.72726628500004,"lon":-73.99425850299997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-12-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A six-story loft building at the northwest corner of Lafayette Street and Great Jones Street in downtown Manhattan, erected in 1888-89 and designed by Henry Janeway Hardenbergh.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it one of the outstanding late nineteenth-century manufacturing buildings in New York City. Its design combines several shades of brick with fanciful medieval details, including mascarons at the fourth-floor arches. It is the work of Henry Janeway Hardenbergh, a prolific and well-known architect, and is nominated for architecture.","narrative":"Rising six stories at the corner of Lafayette and Great Jones Streets in downtown Manhattan, this loft building was erected in 1888-89 to designs by Henry Janeway Hardenbergh. It extends five bays along Lafayette Street and six along Great Jones Street. Sandstone columns on granite bases frame the ground-floor show windows and carry dark brick piers topped with Gothic finials and medieval capitals. Segmental arches at the fourth floor rest on mascarons, and the upper stories are finished in lighter brick. Hipped and gabled roofs on the end bays create an asymmetrical roofline. Slit stairwell windows recall Richardsonian Romanesque work. The nomination ranks it among the finest late nineteenth-century manufacturing buildings in the city, citing its fanciful, original composition and careful detail. Hardenbergh also designed the Dakota Apartments and the Plaza Hotel. Inside, original cast iron columns and window moldings remain visible, though the ground-floor show windows are later alterations.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"Henry Janeway Hardenbergh","architectural_style":"Medieval motifs, Gothic and Romanesque, with Richardsonian Romanesque elements","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as in good condition and altered; occupied by a mail order distributor, a school, a lens manufacturer and a printer at the time of nomination.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:39.884282-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/79001600.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79001600/a0ec7ceefc-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79001600/a0ec7ceefc-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Beyond My Ken","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:376-380_Lafayette_St_Schermerhorn_Building.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:376-380_Lafayette_St_Schermerhorn_Building.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75319333","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schermerhorn_Building","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4986566"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/manhattan/building-at-376-380-lafayette-street-79001600/"}