{"nrhp_refnum":"80002728","name":"West 76th Street Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"W. 76th St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Manhattan","state":"NY","lat":40.779305743000066,"lon":-73.97557965799996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-07-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A block of forty-four row houses on West 76th Street between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue on Manhattan's Upper West Side, built between 1887 and 1900.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the block as a quiet, homogeneous streetscape with uniform setbacks, dimensions and configurations, despite varied facades in late nineteenth century styles. The rows were designed by architects such as John H. Duncan, Cleverdon & Putzel, Schickel & Ditmars, G.A. Schillinger and George M. Walgrove, and built by speculative builders. The district reflects the Upper West Side's growth into a dignified upper middle class neighborhood.","narrative":"West 76th Street between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue holds forty-four row houses erected between 1887 and 1900 on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Speculative builders were drawn to the area in the 1880s as demand for housing grew while the East Side filled in. The earliest rows, put up in 1887-89 for Leonard Beeckman to designs by George M. Walgrove, are brownstones mixing neo-Grec and neo-Italian Renaissance details. Later rows by Cornelius W. Luyster, designed by John H. Duncan, and by James Carlew, designed by Cleverdon & Putzel, show Beaux-Arts and French Renaissance influence. Facades differ in detail and material, yet consistent setbacks, dimensions and general form give the block a unified, dignified character. Built as single-family homes, all the houses have since been divided into apartments, and the form notes no intrusions. The block is listed as a cohesive example of late nineteenth century row house development in the city.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Architects John H. Duncan, Cleverdon & Putzel, Schickel & Ditmars, G.A. Schillinger, George M. Walgrove; builders Cornelius W. Luyster, James Carlew, Alfred G. Nason, Leonard Beeckman (developer)","architectural_style":"Late nineteenth century styles including Beaux-Arts, French Renaissance, neo-Italian Renaissance, French neo-Grec, Romanesque Revival and Queen Anne","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition marked good and altered; the row houses were originally single-family homes and have all been divided into apartments. The form reports no intrusions.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:43.483016-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/80002728.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75320061","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/manhattan/west-76th-street-historic-district-80002728/"}