{"nrhp_refnum":"80002670","name":"Belnord Apartments","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"225 W. 86th St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Manhattan","state":"NY","lat":40.78831392500007,"lon":-73.97555976299998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-04-23","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A thirteen-story luxury apartment building at 225 West 86th Street in Manhattan, designed by H. Hobart Weekes in 1908. It fills an entire city block between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue and encloses a central landscaped courtyard.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it an important early example of apartment house design and one of several large turn-of-the-century projects that set the standard for luxury apartments in New York City. Its central courtyard plan and separate elevator lobbies gave more apartments light, air and views while avoiding long public corridors. The largest apartments spanned about 50 feet from the courtyard to the street facade.","narrative":"Occupying a full city block on Manhattan's Upper West Side between West 86th and 87th Streets, this thirteen-story apartment house was designed by H. Hobart Weekes in 1908. Its limestone and brick exterior follows Italian Renaissance conventions, with a rusticated base, a seven-floor central section and a dentilled cornice. Two two-story archways on 86th Street lead into a landscaped courtyard with a fountain, mature trees and a driveway. Six elevator lobbies open off the courtyard, which let the architect avoid dark interior corridors and give large apartments windows on both courtyard and street. Some rooms ran 50 feet from courtyard to outer wall. The building was listed because it was an early and influential model of luxury apartment living, comparable in plan to the Apthorp, built the same year, though less ornamented outside. Most apartments still keep their original layouts, and the building continues to reflect the spacious character of early luxury apartment houses.","period_of_significance":"1908-1909","architect_builder":"H. Hobart Weekes","architectural_style":"Italian Renaissance","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied and in private residential use; the majority of apartments still retain the original floor plan, though a few have been divided into smaller units.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:41.405608-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/80002670.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80002670/7d6ae7dbb9-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80002670/7d6ae7dbb9-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Jim.henderson","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Belnord_10th_Av_jeh.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jim.henderson</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Belnord_10th_Av_jeh.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75319291","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Belnord","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7716483"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/manhattan/belnord-apartments-80002670/"}