Borough and State: Manhattan, New York
Listed: Local historic district in 2002, extended in 2004; National Register historic district in 2003 (National Register boundaries are larger than local historic district boundaries.)
Type of district: National Register historic district, local historic district
Main Intersection: East 37th Street and Lexington Avenue
Murray Hill National Register Historic District Report
Murray Hill LPC Historic District Report
Murray Hill LPC Historic District Extension Report
Murray Hill LPC Historic District Map
Murray Hill National Register Historic District Map
The Murray Hill Historic District is located in Midtown. It is a residential district composed primarily of pre-Civil-War row houses and later apartment buildings. Murray Hill includes some of Manhattan’s oldest surviving brownstone-faced row houses, a building type that is usually associated with the late-19th-century development of northern Manhattan. Most of the row houses are Italianate in style.
The district is characterized by unbroken blocks of residences, each 3 stories above a raised basement and built between 1886 and 1896, which represent a succession of styles that dominated American domestic architecture during the last 15 years of the 19th century: Greek Revival, Queen Anne, Romanesque and Renaissance Revival.