{"nrhp_refnum":"82003366","name":"Appellate Division Courthouse of New York State","other_names":["Appelate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New Y"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"27 Madison Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Manhattan","state":"NY","lat":40.74219808500004,"lon":-73.98657193699995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-07-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Art","Law","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story marble courthouse at 27 Madison Avenue on Madison Square in Manhattan, built 1896-99 to a design by James Brown Lord. It houses the First Department of the Appellate Division of the New York State Supreme Court.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it a significant example of neo-Italian Renaissance architecture inspired by Palladian sources. Its exterior sculpture and interior murals, all on the theme of Justice and the Law, were planned together with the architecture. It is described as an important example of the turn-of-the-century movement to integrate the arts, and perhaps the only building in New York with so fully integrated a program. The court it houses is also described as one of the most important in the state.","narrative":"Completed in 1899 on Madison Square, this marble courthouse was designed by James Brown Lord for the First Department of the Appellate Division of the New York State Supreme Court. Three stories tall above a basement, it follows a neo-Italian Renaissance design drawn from Palladian sources, with a two-story portico of six fluted Corinthian columns and a pediment holding a sculptural group, the Triumph of the Law. Statues of great lawgivers line the roof parapet. Inside, the main hall and the single courtroom keep their Siena marble walls, coffered ceilings, stained-glass dome and allegorical murals. Sixteen sculptors and ten muralists worked under Lord's direction, with John LaFarge as arbiter for the painters, so that architecture, sculpture and painting formed one program. The nomination calls this the first major New York example of that approach. The court took possession in January 1900 and hears most appeals from civil and criminal courts in New York and Bronx counties.","period_of_significance":"1896-1899; 1953","architect_builder":"James Brown Lord; Rogers & Butler","architectural_style":"Neo-Italian Renaissance, inspired by Palladian sources","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied and in use as a courthouse; the second and third floor offices have been periodically modernized, and a 1953 six-story addition to the north is considered non-historic.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:41.431266-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/82003366.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82003366/c868aaf811-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82003366/c868aaf811-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 2.0","author":"ajay_suresh","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Appellate_Division_Courthouse_of_New_York_State_(51710072409).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">ajay_suresh</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Appellate_Division_Courthouse_of_New_York_State_(51710072409).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75319265","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appellate_Division_Courthouse_of_New_York_State","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4781005"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/manhattan/appellate-division-courthouse-of-new-york-state-82003366/"}