East 80th Street Houses
- Architect
- Cross & Cross
- Style
- Colonial Revival
- City
- Manhattan, NY
The East 80th Street Houses are four attached rowhouses on the south side of East 80th Street between Park and Lexington Avenues on the Upper East Side, built in the 1920s by the firm Cross & Cross for wealthy New Yorkers including Vincent Astor, Clarence Dillon, and George Whitney. Numbered, west to east, 116, 120, 124, and 130, they are built of brick with stone trim in various versions of the Colonial Revival style.
the building
Four matched townhouses. The row of four houses rises on land that climbs gently from 79th Street, standing out on a block otherwise filled with more modern buildings of similar size.
the style
Cross & Cross rendered each house in a different version of Colonial Revival, producing a row of high-style townhouses built for affluent buyers of the 1920s.
More on Colonial Revivalthe architect
The firm Cross & Cross designed the four houses.
significance
All four houses were designated New York City landmarks by 1967, the first group of houses on the Upper East Side to be so recognized, and were listed together on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980 as intact examples of high-style 1920s townhouses.
nearby
- 157 East 78th Street House
- House at 49 East 80th Street
- 210 East 78th Street House
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