{"nrhp_refnum":"83001723","name":"Dorilton","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"171 W. 71st St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Manhattan","state":"NY","lat":40.77809819700008,"lon":-73.98164194199995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-09-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A ten-story luxury apartment building with a three-story mansard roof at 171 West 71st Street, where Broadway meets 71st Street in Manhattan, built 1900-02 to designs by Janes and Leo.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it one of the great surviving luxury apartment buildings of New York from the turn of the century and one of the finest Beaux Arts apartment buildings in Manhattan. Its elaborate form and ornament reflect the opulent taste of the period and an innovative building type. Together with the Dakota and the Ansonia, it marks a high point in the rapid growth of the Upper West Side between 1890 and 1915.","narrative":"Rising ten stories with three more inside a massive curved mansard roof, this apartment house occupies the angle where Broadway meets West 71st Street in Manhattan. Built in 1902 as a speculative venture by developer Hamilton W. Weed, it was designed by the firm of Janes and Leo in the French Beaux-Arts style. A rusticated limestone base, red brick walls with stone quoins, bronze bay windows, wrought-iron gates, and sculpture including Atlas figures and putti give it an elaborate, even flamboyant character that some critics attacked. It was listed because it ranks among the finest Beaux Arts apartment buildings in the borough and represents an early luxury apartment type. It also joins the nearby Dakota and Ansonia as a marker of the Upper West Side's rapid expansion from 1890 to 1915. Alterations include a replaced roof, lost copper and terracotta details, ground-floor shops, and subdivided apartments.","period_of_significance":"1900-","architect_builder":"Janes and Leo (Elisha Harris Janes and Richard Leopold Leo); erected by Hamilton W. Weed","architectural_style":"French Beaux-Arts","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as occupied and in fair condition; altered, with commercial storefronts inserted on Broadway and many apartments subdivided.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:42.14995-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/83001723.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83001723/08a7ffdf40-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83001723/08a7ffdf40-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Gryffindor","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Dorilton_001.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Gryffindor</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Dorilton_001.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75319447","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dorilton","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7730710"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/manhattan/dorilton-83001723/"}