{"nrhp_refnum":"82001193","name":"First Police Precinct Station House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"South St. and Old Slip","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Manhattan","state":"NY","lat":40.703483135000056,"lon":-74.00811933499995,"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 four-story, 11-bay limestone police station house at South Street and Old Slip at the southern tip of Manhattan, New York City, designed by Hunt & Hunt and built in 1909-11.","why_significant":"The nomination presents it as an excellent example of neo-Italian Renaissance design, recalling a fifteenth-century Florentine palazzo, by the well-regarded firm Hunt & Hunt. It is also one of few low, classically inspired buildings in a congested part of Manhattan. Its site, Old Slip, was the city's oldest commercial slip and market place and long housed the First Police Precinct.","narrative":"Occupying an entire lot at South Street and Old Slip, near the southern tip of Manhattan, this four-story limestone building served as the First Police Precinct station house. Built in 1909-11 to designs by Hunt & Hunt, it follows the neo-Italian Renaissance style, with a granite base, rusticated upper stories, a plain attic level and a heavy cornice. The nominators compare its profile to a fifteenth-century Florentine palazzo. Inside, the original oak sergeant's desk, a three-story cell block and a cast-iron staircase survive. The site has long civic associations: Old Slip was the city's oldest commercial slip and official market place, and the precinct was housed in the upper floors of the Franklin Market after 1844. A station house of 1884 preceded the present one. The precinct left in 1973, and in 1979 the Whitney Museum converted the interior to studios and exhibition space while preserving the exterior. The form reports it vacant since 1981.","period_of_significance":"1909-1911","architect_builder":"Hunt & Hunt","architectural_style":"Neo-Italian Renaissance (neo-Renaissance)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Precinct use ended in January 1973; the building was vacant until 1979, when the Whitney Museum remodeled the interior as a downtown cultural center. The form says it has been vacant since 1981. Condition is listed as excellent.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:43.106455-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/82001193.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82001193/273c861c4b-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82001193/273c861c4b-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Dmadeo","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:New-york-city-police-museum.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Dmadeo</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:New-york-city-police-museum.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75319497","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Police_Museum","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1139071"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/manhattan/first-police-precinct-station-house-82001193/"}