{"nrhp_refnum":"86003823","name":"City and Suburban Homes Company's York Avenue Estate and Shively Sanitary Tenements Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by York Ave., E. Seventy-seventh St., Franklin D. Roosevelt Dr., and E. Seventy-ninth St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Manhattan","state":"NY","lat":40.770512644000064,"lon":-73.94940970299996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1994-09-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Transportation","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district in Manhattan's Yorkville neighborhood made up of two model tenement complexes facing each other across York Avenue: the City and Suburban Homes Company's York Avenue Estate and the Shively Sanitary Tenements. It has eighteen contributing buildings, built between 1901 and 1913.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the district is significant for its link to turn-of-the-century housing and sanitary reform movements. It also holds that the model tenements embody a building type important to developing healthful housing for the working poor. Both complexes were privately funded, one by a limited-dividend company and the other by a donor for families of tuberculosis victims.","narrative":"Two groups of model tenements face each other across York Avenue in Manhattan's Yorkville neighborhood. The northern group is the City and Suburban Homes Company's York Avenue Estate, built between 1901 and 1913 to designs by Harde & Short, Percy Griffin and Philip Ohm. To the south are the Shively Sanitary Tenements, designed by Henry Atterbury Smith and built in 1910-1911 for families of tuberculosis victims. Together they hold eighteen buildings, mostly six-story brick structures with large courts that bring light and air to every apartment. Ornament is limited but stylish, drawing on Beaux-Arts details, with the Bishop Potter Memorial Buildings done in a Neo-Gothic manner. The district matters because both complexes were funded privately rather than by government, one by investors who accepted limited dividends and the other by a gift from Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt. They show how reformers tried to provide healthful, well-built housing for working people. A former hotel for working women is the only substantially altered building.","period_of_significance":"1901-1913","architect_builder":"Harde & Short; Percy Griffin; Philip Ohm; Henry Atterbury Smith (Shively Sanitary Tenements)","architectural_style":"Beaux-Arts detailing on most buildings; Neo-Gothic for the Bishop Potter Memorial Buildings","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied and in private residential use; the former Junior League Hotel was converted to apartments around 1980 and has an added eighth floor, while the other buildings are largely intact.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:50.16811-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/86003823_Part1of4.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86003823/eec477e433-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86003823/eec477e433-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Jim.henderson","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cherokee_Apts_78_jeh.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Jim.henderson</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cherokee_Apts_78_jeh.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75319407","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/York_Avenue_Estate","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16557583"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/manhattan/city-and-suburban-homes-companys-york-avenue-estate-and-shively-sanitary-tenemen-86003823/"}