{"nrhp_refnum":"86002516","name":"Tudor City Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Fourty-third St., First Ave., Fourty-first St., and Second Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Manhattan","state":"NY","lat":40.74899640900003,"lon":-73.97095144499997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1986-09-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential historic district at the eastern ends of East 41st, 42nd and 43rd streets between First and Second avenues in Manhattan, built 1925-1930 by the Fred F. French Company. It has fourteen contributing buildings and two contributing parks.","why_significant":"The district is a large Tudor-themed apartment complex planned by Fred F. French as a self-contained residential community within walking distance of Midtown offices. It was the first large-scale project to put the idea of housing near work into practice and influenced later redevelopment of Midtown. Its unified English Tudor design and secluded siting on a raised bluff with no through streets give it a cohesive character.","narrative":"Tudor City is a group of apartment houses, apartment hotels, a church and two private parks on a raised site at the east end of East 41st, 42nd and 43rd streets in Manhattan. Developer Fred F. French designed and built it between 1925 and 1930 as a convenient, well-priced community for middle-class families and single people within a short walk of Midtown offices. Its buildings share English Tudor detail, including terra-cotta ornament, pointed arches, quatrefoils, portcullises, small-paned casement windows, stained glass and half-timbered lobbies. With no through streets and a high bluff setting, the complex feels quiet and secluded. The district includes fourteen contributing buildings and two contributing parks. It was the first large-scale project to put housing near workplaces into practice, and later Midtown and other New York residential developments followed its example. Some changes were made in the early 1950s, but the buildings retain their original character.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Fred F. French Company; Toensfeldt-Boughton (Prospect Hill Apartments); J.C. Cady, Mayer & Mathieu, Adams & Woodbridge (Church of the Covenant)","architectural_style":"Tudor / Neo-Tudor (Hotel Tudor has Art Deco detail)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied, in good condition; minor alterations in the early 1950s when 42nd Street was realigned, and original casement windows removed from The Hermitage in 1985.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.924613-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/86002516.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75320000","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/manhattan/tudor-city-historic-district-86002516/"}