{"nrhp_refnum":"99001330","name":"Stone Street Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Stone, Pearl and S. William Sts. and Mill Ln.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Manhattan","state":"NY","lat":40.70404422800004,"lon":-74.01035198959903,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1999-11-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Commerce"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district in lower Manhattan's Financial District, centered on Stone, Pearl and South William Streets and Mill Lane, with thirteen contributing buildings, mostly store and loft buildings rebuilt after the Great Fire of 1835.","why_significant":"The district holds a rare surviving cluster of early-nineteenth-century Greek Revival commercial buildings, one of three such enclaves in lower Manhattan. It also includes early-twentieth-century revival buildings by noted architects and sits on streets laid out by the Dutch colonists. The area has a layered Dutch, English and Jewish mercantile and residential history.","narrative":"Stone Street Historic District occupies a small enclave of narrow, winding streets in lower Manhattan's Financial District, laid out originally by Dutch colonists. After the Great Fire of 1835 leveled much of the area south of Wall Street, the neighborhood was rebuilt with four- and five-story store and loft buildings for drygoods merchants and importers. Many survive, with austere Greek Revival shopfronts of granite piers and lintels beneath plain brick upper walls. The district also contains the brownstone Anglo-Italianate Hanover Bank Building, later India House, built in 1851-54. In the early twentieth century, real estate operator Amos F. Eno commissioned architect C.P.H. Gilbert to rework buildings on South William Street in the neo-Dutch Renaissance style, and other revival-style offices and a club followed. The district counts thirteen contributing buildings, one non-contributing building and one non-contributing plaza. Its low scale contrasts with surrounding skyscrapers, and the streets carry a Dutch, English and Jewish commercial and residential history.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"C.P.H. Gilbert; Edward L. Tilton; William Neil Smith","architectural_style":"Mid-19th Century: Greek Revival; Late 19th & 20th Century Revivals: Tudor Revival, neo-Dutch Renaissance","criteria":[],"status_note":"Current functions listed as commerce/trade, including restaurants and businesses; one building has restaurant use on its lower floors and apartments above.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:49.97532-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/99001330.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75319961","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/manhattan/stone-street-historic-district-99001330/"}