157 East 78th Street House
- Year
- 1861
- Style
- Italianate
- City
- Manhattan, NY
The houses at 157-165 East 78th Street are a row of five attached brick houses, the remainder of an original group of 11 built in 1861 as the Upper East Side was being opened up by the extension of rail transit.
the building
Among the oldest rowhouses. Two stories high, each lot measures 18 feet wide and 102 feet deep, though the buildings themselves cover only the front 40 feet. Some houses have been added onto, and the two easternmost were combined into a single unit.
the style
The row is built in the Italianate style, common to urban rowhouses of the 1860s.
More on Italianatesignificance
Among the oldest townhouses on the Upper East Side, the row was designated a New York City Landmark in 1968 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980 as the East 78th Street Houses.
nearby
- East 80th Street Houses
- 210 East 78th Street House
- Saint Jean Baptiste Church
- New York Public Library, Yorkville Branch
- Temple Israel of the City of New York
- Church of the Resurrection