891 Amsterdam Avenue (Association Residence Nursing Home)

891 Amsterdam Avenue (Association Residence Nursing Home)

Date: 1883

NB Number: 1881

Type:  Hostel and Nursing Home

Architect:  Rich, Charles A. and Richard Morris Hunt

Developer/Owner/Builder: Association for the Relief of Respectable Aged Indigent Females

NYC Landmarks Designation:  Individual Landmark

Landmark Designation Report: “The Association Residence for Respectable Aged Indigent Females, a prominent feature of the Manhattan Valley neighborhood of Manhattan’s Upper West Side, was constructed in 1881-83 for one of New York City’s oldest charitable institutions. The design, in a French-inspired style which recalls the Victorian Gothic, was by the “dean” of nineteenth-century American architects, Richard Monr.is Hunt. The building remains one of Hunt’s few surviving significant New York City structures and a fine example of ninteenth-century institutional architecture.” (Individual Landmark Designation Report, 1983)

National Register Designation: National Register of Historic Places, 1975

Primary Style:  Neo-Grec and Victorian Gothic

Primary Facade:   Brownstone, Red Brick, Running-Bone Brick, Slate, and Wrought Iron

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