{"nrhp_refnum":"82003345","name":"House at 175 Belden Street","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"175 Belden St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"The Bronx","state":"NY","lat":40.83814307000006,"lon":-73.78216898399995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-06-03","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A freestanding wood-frame picturesque cottage at 175 Belden Street on City Island in the Bronx, New York City, built about 1880 on a sloping lawn overlooking Long Island Sound.","why_significant":"The house is a fine, intact example of the picturesque cottage, a small wood-frame dwelling type developed in mid-nineteenth-century America and rarely found in urban areas. It is one of only a few of its type known in New York City. It also reflects City Island's period as a rural farming and maritime community, and it is probably based on a pattern-book design.","narrative":"Set on a broad sloping lawn above Long Island Sound, this wood-frame house on City Island in the Bronx is a rare surviving picturesque cottage within New York City. Built about 1880, it has an asymmetrical cruciform plan with a north wing and a longer south wing. Details include one-story porches with jigsaw brackets, three-sided bays, decorative bargeboards on the gables, patterned brick chimneys and roofs covered in patterned imbricated tile. The cottage type was developed in America in the mid-nineteenth century as simple, inexpensive housing for rural settings, and it spread through pattern books. A design in Bicknell's Victorian Buildings, published in 1878, closely resembles this house in massing, plan and detail. No builder or architect is recorded, and the date rests on style. The house went up when City Island was a bustling maritime community known for oystering, sailmaking and shipbuilding, and it is counted among the island's most notable nineteenth-century buildings.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899 (specific date c. 1880)","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Picturesque cottage","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as occupied and in use as a private residence; condition marked good and unaltered, on its original site.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:41.678198-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/82003345.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82003345/95910ed25b-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82003345/95910ed25b-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Jim.henderson","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:175_Belden_St_City_Island_jeh.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jim.henderson</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:175_Belden_St_City_Island_jeh.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75316483","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/175_Belden_Street","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5914000"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/the-bronx/house-at-175-belden-street-82003345/"}