{"nrhp_refnum":"83001729","name":"Hotel Gerard","other_names":["Hotel Langwell/Hotel 1-2-3"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"123 W. 44th St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Manhattan","state":"NY","lat":40.763417882000056,"lon":-73.99229215199995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-02-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 13-story U-shaped hotel building at 123 West 44th Street near Times Square in Manhattan, designed in 1893-94 by architect George Keister. It is faced in salmon-colored Roman brick and rusticated limestone.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it the oldest high-rise structure remaining in the Times Square area and one of the earliest tall multiple dwellings left in New York City. It is also architecturally unusual for applying German Renaissance and Northern Gothic details to a high-rise. It recalls the neighborhood's earlier residential character and its early commercial development.","narrative":"Rising thirteen floors on West 44th Street near Times Square, the Hotel Gerard was designed in 1893-94 by architect George Keister. Its U-shaped plan is clad in salmon-colored Roman brick and rusticated limestone, with bowed bays, oriel windows, steep gables and tall dormers topped by urns. The detailing mixes German Renaissance and Northern Gothic motifs, which is unusual for a New York high-rise. It first served as an apartment hotel with central dining, then became a transient hotel as the area turned commercial, and later held single-room occupancy. The upper facade remains almost entirely intact, though the ground floor has altered storefronts and a changed interior. The building matters as the oldest high-rise remaining in the Times Square district and one of the city's earliest tall multiple dwellings. It also recalls a time when brownstone rowhouses dominated the neighborhood, marking a midpoint between those houses and later tall apartment buildings.","period_of_significance":"1893-1894","architect_builder":"George Keister","architectural_style":"German Renaissance and Northern Gothic decorative motifs","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as partly vacant, with the ground floor in commercial use including a restaurant; the owner was preparing plans for residential rehabilitation.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:42.218904-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/83001729.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83001729/6d53792dd5-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83001729/6d53792dd5-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Americasroof at English Wikipedia","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hotel-gerard.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Americasroof at English Wikipedia</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hotel-gerard.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75319602","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Gerard","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5397234"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/manhattan/hotel-gerard-83001729/"}