{"nrhp_refnum":"82003373","name":"Douglas, Adelaide L. T., House","other_names":["Guatemalan Mission to the United Nations"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"57 Park Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Manhattan","state":"NY","lat":40.74925222300004,"lon":-73.97947614399999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-07-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A six-story granite and limestone townhouse at 57 Park Avenue in the Murray Hill section of Manhattan, built 1909-11 for Adelaide Townsend Douglas and designed by Horace Trumbauer.","why_significant":"The house is a fine example of Horace Trumbauer's residential work in New York City, designed in the French Classic style of Louis XVI within the Beaux-Arts tradition. Its varied stone and wrought-iron ornament gives it special character. It also reflects Park Avenue's emergence as an elegant residential street near the new Grand Central Terminal.","narrative":"Six stories tall and faced in granite and limestone, this Park Avenue townhouse in Manhattan's Murray Hill was built in 1909-11 for socialite Adelaide Townsend Douglas. Philadelphia architect Horace Trumbauer designed it in the French Classic style of Louis XVI, fitting an elegant composition onto a standard 25-foot-wide New York lot. A rusticated base, a balcony cornice on paired modillions, carved panels of singing children inspired by Italian Renaissance reliefs, an arched colonnade and a slate mansard roof give the facade its character. Inside, a spiral staircase and a paneled second-floor drawing room survive. Mrs. Douglas bought the site in 1909, when Park Avenue south of Grand Central was a fashionable residential street. After her death the building became apartments, and since 1979 it has housed the Guatemalan Mission to the United Nations. It is valued as a refined example of Trumbauer's New York residential work.","period_of_significance":"1900- (specific dates 1909-11)","architect_builder":"Horace Trumbauer","architectural_style":"French Classic style of Louis XVI (Beaux-Arts tradition)","criteria":[],"status_note":"No longer used as a residence; converted to apartments after Mrs. Douglas's death and, since 1979, houses the Guatemalan Mission to the United Nations. Retains many original interior features.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:43.372671-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/82003373.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82003373/c436df1cf0-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82003373/c436df1cf0-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Beyond My Ken","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:57_Park_Avenue.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:57_Park_Avenue.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"03000997","name":"Murray Hill Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/new-york/murray-hill-historic-district-03000997/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75319449","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelaide_L._T._Douglas_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5754060"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/manhattan/douglas-adelaide-l-t-house-82003373/"}