{"nrhp_refnum":"89002260","name":"Residences at 5-15 West 54th Street","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"5-15 W. 54th St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Manhattan","state":"NY","lat":40.76183291600006,"lon":-73.97596643899993,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1990-01-04","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A district of five late-1890s townhouses on the north side of West 54th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues in midtown Manhattan, New York City, designed by four different architects.","why_significant":"The row is an outstanding collection of high-style single-family townhouses from the last phase of wealthy residential development in midtown. Built on the former St. Luke's Hospital site, the houses are cohesive in scale, massing and materials and retain a very high level of integrity. They are also notable as homes of prominent New Yorkers, and 9-11 West 54th Street is an extremely early urban Colonial Revival design.","narrative":"Five grand townhouses stand together on the north side of West 54th Street, just west of Fifth Avenue in midtown Manhattan. Built between 1896 and 1900 on land once occupied by St. Luke's Hospital, they were designed by four prominent architects or firms: McKim, Mead & White, R.H. Robertson, Henry Hardenbergh and John Duncan. The group includes a neo-Italian Renaissance house for Dr. Moses Allen Starr, a Beaux-Arts house for banker Philip Lehman, a Colonial Revival double house for James J. Goodwin, and a mirrored pair at Nos. 13 and 15. Although each design differs, the row is unified by similar height, massing, masonry construction, mansard roofs and classical details. The houses are significant as a rare surviving enclave from the brief period when wealthy families built single-family homes south of 59th Street, and for their exceptional integrity. Residents included the Lehmans, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. and Nelson Rockefeller, and the buildings remained residences into the 1970s.","period_of_significance":"1896-1900","architect_builder":"McKim, Mead & White; R.H. Robertson; Henry Hardenbergh; John Duncan","architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th century revivals: Beaux Arts, Colonial Revival, Italian Renaissance, Classical Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Houses were kept as residences into the 1970s; current uses are multiple dwellings and financial institution/business. No. 7 is now used as offices, and 9-11 was restored in the early 1980s.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.995445-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/89002260.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89002260/929fed5e44-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89002260/929fed5e44-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Americasroof at English Wikipedia","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:West54house.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:West54house.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75319856","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5485545"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/manhattan/residences-at-5-15-west-54th-street-89002260/"}