{"nrhp_refnum":"87001388","name":"Grand Concourse Historic District","other_names":["See Also:Bronx County Courthouse"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"730--1000, 1100--1520, 1560, and 851--1675 Grand Concourse","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"The Bronx","state":"NY","lat":40.83182300900006,"lon":-73.92527979982084,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1987-08-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district stretching over a mile along the Grand Concourse in the Bronx, New York, covering parts of thirty-six blocks of apartment houses, a few institutional buildings and one park, built mainly between 1916 and 1941.","why_significant":"The district is a cohesive boulevard of apartment buildings that shows the shift from simplified historicist styles of the 1910s and 1920s to Art Deco designs of the 1930s and early 1940s. It was built by speculative developers and designed by many architects, and the buildings keep a high degree of integrity, including ornate lobbies. The form also notes its role in the residential development of the West Bronx.","narrative":"Running more than a mile along the Grand Concourse in the Bronx, this district takes in parts of thirty-six blocks and holds 83 contributing buildings plus one park. Most are apartment houses of five or six stories, built of brick with stone, cast-stone or terra-cotta trim, and set at the building line to form a continuous street wall. All contributing buildings date from 1916 to 1941. Early walkups are simple neo-Renaissance designs, while the 1920s brought Colonial Revival, neo-Tudor and Mediterranean examples such as the Concourse Plaza Hotel and Buckingham Manor. The 1930s and early 1940s produced buff-brick Art Deco buildings with corner windows, mosaics and terrazzo lobbies, including works by Emery Roth, Horace Ginsbern and Jacob Felson. Institutions such as the Andrew Freedman Home and the Bronx County Courthouse sit among them. Speculative builders developed the boulevard piecemeal as lots and financing became available, yet the scale, materials and ornament remain closely related, and many original lobbies survive.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Many architects, including Charles B. Meyers, Springsteen & Goldhammer, Horace Ginsbern, Jacob M. Felson, Emery Roth, Andrew J. Thomas, Maynicke & Frank, and H.I. Feldman","architectural_style":"Neo-Renaissance, Colonial Revival, neo-Tudor, Mediterranean, and Art Deco","criteria":[],"status_note":"Contributing buildings retain a high degree of integrity with few major alterations; the district has 83 contributing buildings, one contributing park, and a few non-contributing buildings. The form marks the district as occupied, with work in progress in places.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:44.790204-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/87001388.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87001388/0ff9e5f8a9-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87001388/0ff9e5f8a9-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"MMZach","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grand_Concourse_2007-11.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">MMZach</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:Grand_Concourse_2007-11.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75316475","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Concourse_(Bronx)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5594456"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/the-bronx/grand-concourse-historic-district-87001388/"}