{"nrhp_refnum":"89000946","name":"Dahlgren, Lucy Drexel, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"15 E. 96th St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Manhattan","state":"NY","lat":40.78712761200006,"lon":-73.95377020899997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1989-07-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A five-and-a-half-story limestone townhouse at 15 East 96th Street in the Carnegie Hill section of Manhattan, designed by Ogden Codman and built between 1912 and 1916, with an integral porte-cochere, side courtyard and rear garage.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the house as a highly intact example of Codman's mature work in the French Neoclassical Revival style. It argues the house embodies the interior decoration principles Codman set out in The Decoration of Houses. The house was chosen over Codman's other 96th Street townhouses because of its outstanding integrity.","narrative":"Number 15 East 96th Street is a limestone townhouse in Manhattan's Carnegie Hill, designed by Ogden Codman and built between 1912 and 1916. It is one of three surviving Codman townhouses on the block, now separated by apartment buildings from the 1920s and 1930s. The house fills a lot 37 feet 6 inches wide and 100 feet 11 inches deep, and includes a porte-cochere, a side courtyard and a rear garage with an automobile turntable and car lift that still work. Its facade follows the French Neoclassical Revival style, with banded rustication, a segmental pediment over the central window, wrought-iron railings and a slate mansard roof with dormers. Inside, marble floors, paneled rooms and French hardware survive. Pierre Cartier, a later owner, added elements around 1931. The house was singled out for listing because of its exceptional integrity and because it reflects the design philosophy Codman set out in The Decoration of Houses.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Ogden Codman","architectural_style":"Classical Revival (French Neoclassical Revival)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as a former private residence; current function given as work in progress. The porte-cochere, courtyard, garage turntable and car lift are described as intact, and the kitchen area was altered in 1981 and converted to a study in 1988.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:44.697224-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/89000946.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89000946/027f0232a4-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89000946/027f0232a4-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 2.0","author":"ajay_suresh","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lucy_Drexel_Dahlgren_House_(52009652574).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">ajay_suresh</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lucy_Drexel_Dahlgren_House_(52009652574).jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"10000588","name":"Park Avenue Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/new-york/park-avenue-historic-district-10000588/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75319433","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Drexel_Dahlgren_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6698281"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/manhattan/dahlgren-lucy-drexel-house-89000946/"}