{"nrhp_refnum":"82001185","name":"Apartment at 1261 Madison Avenue","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1261 Madison Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Manhattan","state":"NY","lat":40.783548378000035,"lon":-73.95643368699996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-10-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A seven-story Beaux-Arts apartment building at the corner of 91st Street and Madison Avenue in the Carnegie Hill area of Manhattan, built in 1900-1901 to designs by Buchman & Fox for developer Gilbert Brown.","why_significant":"The nomination presents it as a fine, intact example of neo-Baroque Beaux-Arts design and an early, rare surviving New York luxury apartment building from the turn of the century. It was planned for only fourteen families and is an atypical building type for Carnegie Hill. It is also considered one of the most successful works of the architectural firm Buchman & Fox.","narrative":"Standing at the corner of 91st Street and Madison Avenue, this seven-story apartment house was built in 1900-1901 for real estate developer Gilbert Brown and designed by the firm Buchman & Fox. It was planned to house just fourteen families. Its first two stories are rusticated limestone, with a projecting entrance topped by a broken pediment and a cartouche, while smooth limestone, keyed window frames, arched cartouches, a modillioned cornice and a tiled mansard roof with arched pediments complete the street facades. The rear and sides are plain brick. The building is valued as an intact example of neo-Baroque Beaux-Arts design and as an early, rare surviving luxury apartment house in New York, built when well-to-do families were beginning to leave private town houses. It sits in Carnegie Hill, named for Andrew Carnegie's nearby mansion, and is an unusual building type for the area's rowhouses and mansions. Its carved detail is used sparingly, focusing attention on the entry and roofline.","period_of_significance":"1900-1901","architect_builder":"Buchman & Fox","architectural_style":"Neo-Baroque Beaux-Arts","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed in good condition and in use as a private residence; the form describes it as intact.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:42.975934-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/82001185.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82001185/a0e5ad1f32-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82001185/a0e5ad1f32-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Epicgenius","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Madison_Av_May_2024_120.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Epicgenius</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:Madison_Av_May_2024_120.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"10000588","name":"Park Avenue Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/new-york/park-avenue-historic-district-10000588/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75319259","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1261_Madison_Avenue","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16531475"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/manhattan/apartment-at-1261-madison-avenue-82001185/"}