{"nrhp_refnum":"80002690","name":"Former Police Headquarters Building","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"240 Centre St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Manhattan","state":"NY","lat":40.72005043100006,"lon":-73.99839272799994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-03-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A five-story granite and limestone former police headquarters at 240 Centre Street in Manhattan, New York City, built between 1905 and 1909 to designs by the architectural firm Hoppin and Koen.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is one of New York City's most important examples of Edwardian Baroque architecture and Beaux-Arts design principles. It also gave the nation's largest police force a new official image and serves as a reminder of the police department's history. The building anchors the Little Italy neighborhood architecturally.","narrative":"Occupying a wedge-shaped site at 240 Centre Street in Manhattan, this five-story granite and limestone building served as New York City's police headquarters. Built between 1905 and 1909 to designs by Hoppin and Koen, with Franklin B. Huntington supervising the final stages, it replaced the older headquarters at 300 Mulberry Street on the site of the former Centre Market. The exterior combines Beaux-Arts composition, including a rusticated arcade, Corinthian columns, a pedimented portico and a central dome, with Baroque features such as domed towers, caryatids and a vermiculated porte cochere. Its architect said the aim was to impress officers and prisoners alike with the majesty of the law. The building was listed as an important example of Edwardian Baroque design and as a symbol of the city's police history. The interior is plainer than the exterior, with a grand entrance hall as the main exception. Years of vacancy and vandalism have left little of the original interior.","period_of_significance":"1905-1909","architect_builder":"Hoppin, Koen and Huntington","architectural_style":"Edwardian Baroque with Beaux-Arts principles of design","criteria":[],"status_note":"Vacant for a number of years; the interior has suffered vandalism and little original interior fabric remains.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:42.96897-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/80002690.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80002690/74caf72fde-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80002690/74caf72fde-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 2.0","author":"ajay_suresh","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_Police_Headquarters_-_NYPD_(51623900396).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">ajay_suresh</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_Police_Headquarters_-_NYPD_(51623900396).jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"10000012","name":"Chinatown and Little Italy Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/new-york/chinatown-and-little-italy-historic-district-10000012/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75319511","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/240_Centre_Street","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2813546"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/manhattan/former-police-headquarters-building-80002690/"}