Upper East Side Historic District (Boundary Increase)

This amendment enlarges a Manhattan historic district on the Upper East Side by adding portions of 17 blocks east of the original boundary, mostly along Lexington Avenue and the side streets between East 60th and East 75th Streets. The added area holds 163 contributing and 34 non-contributing buildings. Most are four- and five-story rowhouses built largely in the 1870s as brownstones in Italianate and Neo-Grec styles, many later rebuilt in Neo-Georgian, Neo-Federal or Tudor Revival dress or fitted with shops. Apartment houses of six to 15 stories, mostly from the 1920s, line Park and Lexington Avenues and East 72nd Street. The 25-story Barbizon Hotel, built in 1925 as a women's residence, is also included. The amendment extends the period of significance to 1956 and reclassifies several postwar buildings as contributing. Three Modern landmarks receive separate recognition: Asia House by Philip Johnson, the Whitney Museum building by Marcel Breuer, and a townhouse by Paul Rudolph.