{"nrhp_refnum":"82001202","name":"New York School of Applied Design","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"160 Lexington Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Manhattan","state":"NY","lat":40.74404688200008,"lon":-73.98168767599998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-12-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A five-story brick, stone and terra-cotta neo-Classical institutional building at the northwest corner of Lexington Avenue and 30th Street in Manhattan, built in 1908-09 to a design by Harvey Wiley Corbett.","why_significant":"It was built for the New York School of Applied Design for Women, founded in 1892 to give working-class women professional training, a concept described as very advanced for its time. It is also an early work of architect Harvey Wiley Corbett and a distinctive, original version of neo-Classical design, with a Parthenon-derived frieze and a monumental Ionic colonnade.","narrative":"Located at the northwest corner of Lexington Avenue and 30th Street in Manhattan, this five-story building of brick, stone and terra cotta was constructed in 1908-09 for the New York School of Applied Design for Women. The school, founded in 1892, trained women to earn a living applying ornamental design to manufacturing and the arts, which was a forward-looking idea at the time. Harvey Wiley Corbett designed the building and also taught at the school. Its neo-Classical facade has a high ashlar base, a frieze cast from portions of the Parthenon frieze, four polished granite Ionic columns, a terra-cotta cornice with acanthus scrolls, and a steep green-painted roof. The school offered courses in book illustration, textile and wallpaper design and interior decoration, and was linked to Columbia University's architecture program. It merged with Pratt Institute in 1974. Inside, a wood and glass entrance screen, the original staircase and fifth-floor studios survive.","period_of_significance":"1908-09","architect_builder":"Harvey Wiley Corbett","architectural_style":"Neo-Classical","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied and in educational use as the Pratt Manhattan Center; interior renovations by Pratt Institute in the late 1970s, with much original detailing and plan remaining.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:43.484213-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/82001202.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82001202/3febddcc41-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82001202/3febddcc41-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Americasroof at English Wikipedia","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Applied-design1.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Americasroof at English Wikipedia</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Applied-design1.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75319784","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_School_of_Applied_Design","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q953252"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/manhattan/new-york-school-of-applied-design-82001202/"}