{"nrhp_refnum":"82001201","name":"New York County Lawyers Association Building","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"14 Vesey St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Manhattan","state":"NY","lat":40.711945686000035,"lon":-74.00916899099997,"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 limestone clubhouse at 14 Vesey Street in Manhattan's civic center, designed by Cass Gilbert and built 1928-1930 for the New York County Lawyers Association.","why_significant":"The nomination presents it as a small but imposing neo-Georgian clubhouse by the prominent architect Cass Gilbert. Gilbert chose the style as simple, dignified and impressive, and related to nearby Old Saint Paul's Church across the street. It was built for a distinguished legal fraternity whose members included several notable jurists.","narrative":"Located at 14 Vesey Street in Manhattan's historic civic center, this four-story limestone clubhouse was built between 1928 and 1930 for the New York County Lawyers Association. Architect Cass Gilbert designed it in the neo-Georgian style, choosing a manner he described as simple, dignified and impressive and related to Old Saint Paul's Church directly across the street. The building sits behind a shallow garden enclosed by a wrought-iron fence. It has a rusticated ground floor, fluted two-story pilasters, French windows on the second floor, a dentiled cornice and a balustrade crowning the facade. Interior spaces retaining original fabric include a marble entrance hall, a second-floor foyer, a neo-Georgian auditorium and lounge, and the Board of Directors' Room. Gilbert also designed the Woolworth Building and the U.S. Supreme Court Building. The association, incorporated in 1908, counted William Howard Taft and Charles Evans Hughes among its members.","period_of_significance":"1928-1930","architect_builder":"Cass Gilbert","architectural_style":"Neo-Georgian","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied and in good condition, unaltered, on its original site; used as a clubhouse by its owner, the New York County Lawyers Association.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:42.448024-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/82001201.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82001201/5be7b74b60-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82001201/5be7b74b60-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Beyond My Ken","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:New_York_County_Lawyers%27_Association.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Beyond My Ken</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_County_Lawyers%27_Association.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75319766","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_County_Lawyers%27_Association_Building","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8772027"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/manhattan/new-york-county-lawyers-association-building-82001201/"}