Murray Hill Historic District (Boundary Increase)

Five blocks of Midtown Manhattan between Park and Lexington Avenues, from East 35th to East 39th Streets, make up this residential district. Its core is a set of brownstone-fronted row houses built mostly in the 1850s, many in an Italianate style. Each block is characterized by a row of perhaps a dozen such houses, although many have been altered with stucco, replacement windows or changed cornices. Along Park Avenue, early 20th century apartment houses and hotels in restrained neo-Classical and neo-Georgian styles show the area's later growth. Notable buildings include a Renaissance Revival mansion designed by Stanford White, a Beaux-Arts mansion by Hoppin & Koen, and the Church of the New Jerusalem, an Italian Renaissance Revival church of 1858-59. The district counts 88 contributing buildings and 12 non-contributing ones, mostly heavily altered row houses. It was listed because it remains one of the last intact 19th-century residential neighborhoods in Midtown.