Upper East Side Historic District | |
Location | Roughly bounded by 3rd and 5th Aves., 59th and 79th Sts., (original) Portion of 17 blocks adjacent to and E of the original district bet. E. 60th and E 75th Sts., (increase) New York, New York |
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Coordinates | 40°46′11″N73°57′59″W / 40.76972°N 73.96639°W |
Built | 1862 |
Architect | Multiple |
Architectural style | Late 19th And 20th Century Revivals, Late Victorian |
NRHP reference No. | 84002803 [1] (original) 06000822 [1] (increase) |
Significant dates | |
Added to NRHP | September 7, 1984 |
Boundary increase | September 12, 2006 |
The Upper East Side Historic District is a landmarked historic district on the Upper East Side of New York City's borough of Manhattan, first designated by the city in 1981. [2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. [3] Its boundaries were expanded in 2010. [1] [4]
The district includes all of the Fifth Avenue properties bordering Central Park from 59th to 78th Street; both sides of Madison Avenue from 61st Street to 77th Street; both sides of Park Avenue from just below 62nd Street to 72nd Street; and portions of both sides of Lexington Avenue from 63rd Street to 75th Street. [5]
The district is home to a number of buildings individually listed on the National Register, including the Gertrude Rhinelander Waldo Mansion and the Sara Delano Roosevelt Memorial House, [1] as well as edifices that are more recent additions like the Edmond J. Safra Synagogue — a 2003 building designed in an "artful synthesis of the composition, details and material palette of the Beaux-Arts style," to complement the historic buildings that surround it. [6]
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