Tudor City Historic District

Tudor City is a group of apartment houses, apartment hotels, a church and two private parks on a raised site at the east end of East 41st, 42nd and 43rd streets in Manhattan. Developer Fred F. French designed and built it between 1925 and 1930 as a convenient, well-priced community for middle-class families and single people within a short walk of Midtown offices. Its buildings share English Tudor detail, including terra-cotta ornament, pointed arches, quatrefoils, portcullises, small-paned casement windows, stained glass and half-timbered lobbies. With no through streets and a high bluff setting, the complex feels quiet and secluded. The district includes fourteen contributing buildings and two contributing parks. It was the first large-scale project to put housing near workplaces into practice, and later Midtown and other New York residential developments followed its example. Some changes were made in the early 1950s, but the buildings retain their original character.