Murray Hill Historic District

Five blocks of Midtown Manhattan between Park and Lexington Avenues, from East 35th to East 39th Streets, make up this district of 88 contributing and 12 non-contributing buildings. Its character comes from rows of brownstone-fronted row houses built before the Civil War, mostly in an Italianate style, with many dating to the 1850s. Several have been covered in stucco or altered over time, yet most still read clearly as a mid-19th-century neighborhood. Park Avenue adds early 20th-century apartment houses and hotels in restrained neo-Classical and neo-Georgian styles, along with churches such as the Church of the New Jerusalem on East 35th Street. The district also contains the Lanier House and the Douglas House, which were listed individually in 1982. Residents over the years included a Union army captain, an illustrator who created the Gibson Girl, and stage actors. It is described as one of the last intact 19th-century residential districts in Midtown.