{"nrhp_refnum":"82001206","name":"Vanderbilt, Mrs. Graham Fair, House","other_names":["Lycee Francais de New York"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"60 E. 93rd St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Manhattan","state":"NY","lat":40.784886577000066,"lon":-73.95499054299995,"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 three-story limestone townhouse at 60 East 93rd Street in the Carnegie Hill area of Manhattan, designed in 1929 and built 1930-31 by architect John Russell Pope as a residence for Mrs. Graham Fair Vanderbilt.","why_significant":"It is one of the very last grand townhouses built in Manhattan, completed after the Great Depression began and when luxury apartments were favored by the wealthy. It is a fine example of French neo-classical design by John Russell Pope, and one of the few surviving Vanderbilt-commissioned mansions. It is also an important part of the Carnegie Hill streetscape.","narrative":"Located at 60 East 93rd Street in Manhattan's Carnegie Hill area, this limestone townhouse was designed in 1929 and completed in 1931 for Mrs. Graham Fair Vanderbilt, wife of William Kissam Vanderbilt II. Architect John Russell Pope, trained at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, gave it a restrained French neo-classical facade three bays wide, rising three stories above a rusticated basement beneath a slate mansard roof with segmentally arched dormers. Wrought-iron balconies, keystones carved with female masks and volutes, quoined corners and a round-arched entrance pavilion add detail. The house was among the last great townhouses built in the city, arriving after the onset of the Great Depression, when wealthy New Yorkers preferred luxury apartments. The Vanderbilt family had commissioned opulent New York mansions since the 1880s, and few survive. The house is now used as a school and stands beside the similar William Goadby Loew house.","period_of_significance":"1900- (specific dates 1930-31)","architect_builder":"John Russell Pope","architectural_style":"French neo-classical","criteria":[],"status_note":"Excellent condition, altered; in use as a school.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:41.815041-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/82001206.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82001206/23806977f2-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82001206/23806977f2-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Americasroof","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vanderbilt-60e93.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Americasroof</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:Vanderbilt-60e93.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/75320031","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs._Graham_Fair_Vanderbilt_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6929770"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/manhattan/vanderbilt-mrs-graham-fair-house-82001206/"}