{"nrhp_refnum":"83001725","name":"Grand Hotel","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1232-1238 Broadway","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Manhattan","state":"NY","lat":40.747256650000054,"lon":-73.98815347799996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-09-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A five-story hotel building under a mansard roof at 1232-1238 Broadway, on the southeast corner of Broadway and West 31st Street in Manhattan's garment district, designed in 1868 by Henry Engelbert.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the hotel is a sophisticated example of French Second Empire style adapted to a masonry commercial building, drawing on Parisian hotels particuliers. It is also one of only two surviving hotels from the period when this stretch of Broadway was Manhattan's main entertainment district.","narrative":"Rising five stories beneath a towered mansard roof at Broadway and West 31st Street, this hotel was commissioned in 1868 by carpet merchant Elias S. Higgins and designed by architect Henry Engelbert. Its two exposed white marble facades are unified by molded band courses, with window shapes that change from floor to floor and quoined projecting pavilions. The design follows French Second Empire fashion, inspired by Paris under Napoleon III, and borrows from Parisian town houses, with stores at street level and an arcade of round-arched windows below the roof. At the time it served an entertainment district of theaters, shops and other hotels along Broadway. That district later moved north to Times Square, and the area became part of the garment district. The ground floor was altered in 1957 and the interior has been completely changed, but the upper stories remain largely intact. Today the building holds single-room-occupancy apartments and recalls the area's earlier prominence.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"Henry Engelbert","architectural_style":"French Second Empire","criteria":[],"status_note":"Used for single-room-occupancy apartments; ground floor altered in 1957 with small shops and the interior completely altered, while the upper floors largely retain original integrity.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:41.377743-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/83001725.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83001725/585919b7b7-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83001725/585919b7b7-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Beyond My Ken","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grand_Hotel_1232-38_Broadway.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:Grand_Hotel_1232-38_Broadway.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75319564","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Hotel_(New_York_City)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q955590"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/manhattan/grand-hotel-83001725/"}