{"nrhp_refnum":"84002806","name":"Webster Hotel","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"40 W. 45th St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Manhattan","state":"NY","lat":40.756208671000024,"lon":-73.98173909599996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-09-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A twelve-story hotel building at 40 West 45th Street in midtown Manhattan, New York City, designed in 1902 by the architectural firm Tracy and Swartwout.","why_significant":"It is one of the few surviving examples of the many small hotels that characterized midtown Manhattan in the early twentieth century. It is described as the most intact of only three hotels of similar size and quality to survive. It retains an outstanding level of exterior integrity and reflects the area's rapid growth as a commercial and theatre district after 1890.","narrative":"Rising twelve stories on West 45th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues, this midtown Manhattan hotel was designed in 1902 by Tracy and Swartwout. Its facade follows the classic base, shaft and cap arrangement: a rusticated limestone base, a red brick shaft with terra cotta panels and cast-iron balconies, and a limestone and brick cap under a copper roof. The hotel is valued as a rare survivor of the small hotels that served middle-class travelers and residents as midtown grew into a theatre and commercial district. Of about ninety-one hotels built in the area between 1898 and 1916, sixty-four have been destroyed, and nearby contemporaries have heavily altered ground floors. This building keeps an unusually intact exterior, with only a restaurant door, wood panelling and a replaced canopy at street level. Its interior was largely lost in an abandoned condominium conversion, though a plaster niche, fireplace surrounds and \"W\" motifs survive.","period_of_significance":"1902","architect_builder":"Tracy and Swartwout","architectural_style":"Classical Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as occupied and as work in progress. The interior was gutted by a recent condominium conversion project that was abandoned before completion; the exterior is largely intact, with a restaurant at street level.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:43.226765-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/84002806.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84002806/def4754772-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84002806/def4754772-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Americasroof at English Wikipedia","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Webster-hotel.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:Webster-hotel.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75320053","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webster_Hotel","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7978932"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/manhattan/webster-hotel-84002806/"}