{"nrhp_refnum":"82003377","name":"House at 203 East 29 Street","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"203 E. 29th St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Manhattan","state":"NY","lat":40.74249893900003,"lon":-73.97981621299994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-07-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-and-one-half-story gambrel-roofed wooden house on a one-story brick base at 201-203 East 29th Street in Manhattan, with a late nineteenth-century brick carriage house and courtyard on the same lot.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it a unique surviving example in mid-Manhattan of a modest wooden house typical of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It exemplifies a vernacular braced-frame type with a high-shouldered gambrel roof once common in the New York City region. Most such houses were removed for the 1811 street grid or lost in the 1835 fire.","narrative":"Tucked into a block of East 29th Street in Manhattan, this gambrel-roofed wooden house is a rare survivor of the vernacular building once common across New York City and its surrounding countryside. It is a braced-frame structure sheathed in wide clapboards, with windows that shrink on each higher story. The land was part of the eighteenth-century Rose Hill Farm and was divided into city lots in 1811. Between 1830 and 1850 the house was raised over a brick ground-level foundation, and a brick carriage house was added around 1870. The house served as a residence until 1902, when it began commercial use. It has since been rehabilitated as a multiple-family residence. Inside, the original stair location, some lath and plaster, recessed panels, trim and chimney fireplaces remain. The listing rests on its status as an unusual surviving example of a house type that street-grid changes and the 1835 fire largely erased from Manhattan.","period_of_significance":"1790-1870's","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Vernacular wooden braced-frame house with gambrel roof","criteria":[],"status_note":"Recently rehabilitated as a multiple-family residence; the form lists the property as occupied, with the interior described as remarkably intact.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:42.082839-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/82003377.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82003377/3a5eea1893-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82003377/3a5eea1893-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Beyond My Ken","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:203_E_29th_St.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:203_E_29th_St.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75319610","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/203_East_29th_Street","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5914090"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/manhattan/house-at-203-east-29-street-82003377/"}