146 East 38th Street

Historic building in Manhattan, New York September 2025 January 2025 146 East 38th Street cp 146 East 38th Street (55314033789).jpg 250px (2026) New York City#New York#USA 40 44 54.9 N 73 58 38.3 W type:landmark_region:US-NY inline,title 146 East 38th StreetManhattan, New York City 1860–61 Benjamin Wise Jr.Joseph Whitehead Italianate May 21, 2008https://www.nps.gov/subjects/nationalregister/upload/weekly-list-2008-national-register-of-historic-places.pdf National Register of Historic Places 2008 Weekly Lists National Park Service September 10, 2023 080004502009a Murray Hill Historic District 03000997 February 27, 2013 New York State Register of Historic Places 06101.016523 March 25, 2008Cultural Resource Information System (CRIS) New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation November 7, 2014 https://cris.parks.ny.gov/ July 20, 2023 146 East 38th Street is a historic house located between Lexington and Third avenues in the Murray Hill neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. Constructed from 1860 to 1861, it is one of the few intact Italianate brownstone rowhouses in Manhattan. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. History The house is part of a group of six Italianate brownstone rowhouses (Nos. 140 to 150) that were built on the south side of East 38th Street by Joseph Whitehead and Benjamin Wise Jr. from 1860 to 1861. While the other townhouses in the group have since undergone alterations, such as the removal of their stoops, No. 146 has largely remained unchanged. It is one of the few intact Italianate brownstone homes in Manhattan.National Park Service 2008 sec. 8, p. 2 The building was owned by Ms. Marion Leslie from 1861 to 1916, but appears to have been an investment property, as it was occupied by a number of different people.National Park Service 2008 sec. 8, p. 2 At the turn of the century, a resident of the house was Thomas Curtis Clarke, who was described by The New York Times as being "one of the best-known civil engineers in America." He died at home in June 1901 after falling ill, and his funeral was held at the house.June 17, 1901 https://www.nytimes.com/1901/06/17/archives/thomas-curtis-clarke-dead-was-one-of-line-most-widely-known-civil.html Thomas Curtis Clarke Dead The New York Times September 10, 2023June 17, 1901 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/131496119/the-standard-union-obituary-for-thomas-c/ Thomas Curtis Clarke The Standard Union Brooklyn September 10, 2023 Newspapers.com In the middle of the twentieth century, another resident of the house was poet and author Barbara Leslie Jordan, who married John I. Yellott at the home in June 1951.June 3, 1951 https://www.nytimes.com/1951/06/03/archives/yellottjordan.html Yellott—Jordan The New York Times September 10, 2023December 11, 1993 Barbara L. Yellott Orlando Sentinel A14 278355622 In 1998, the building was purchased for $1.14 million by a group of three men, who renovated the structure while preserving its historic details, and sold it the following year for $2.7 million.April 9, 1998 https://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/09/garden/residential-resales-406457.html Residential Resales The New York Times September 10, 2023Kelly Kate April 12, 1999 https://observer.com/1999/04/gwyneths-16-million-preoscar-town-house/ Gwyneth's $1.6 Million Pre-Oscar Town House The New York Observer September 10, 2023May 16, 1999 https://www.nytimes.com/1999/05/16/realestate/residential-sales.html Residential Sales The New York Times September 10, 2023 The house, which was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 21, 2008, is privately owned 2016 y.Silber Elaine Spring 2016 https://www.murrayhillnyc.org/photos/news/spring_2016.pdf Architectural Preservation Awards Evening Murray Hill Life Murray Hill Neighborhood Association 11 September 10, 2023 Architecture The house contains three stories and a high basement.National Park Service 2008 sec. 7, p. 1National Park Service 2008 sec. 8, p. 4 The building's front façade is faced with brownstone and is divided vertically into three bays, with three windows on the second and third floors and two windows and an entrance on the first floor and the basement. On the basement level, the façade has large rusticated blocks with two windows set behind iron grilles and a secondary entrance below the stoop. The stone stoop is flanked by metal railings and leads up to the primary entrance on the first floor, which is a wood paneled double door in an arched opening topped with paneled spandrels, an ornamental keystone, and brackets decorated in floral patterns that support a segmental pediment. The windows on the first floor next to the primary entrance have molded lintels and footed sills. On the second and third floors, the windows have similar designs, except that the console brackets supporting the sills are smaller in size and less ornate. A cornice runs above the third floor and is supported by four console brackets with paneling in between.National Park Service 2008 sec. 7, p. 1 The interior of the house includes marble fireplaces, Italianate molding, and a wooden staircase with banister that is topped by a skylight on the third floor.National Park Service 2008 sec. 7, pp. 2–4 See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Manhattan from 14th to 59th Streets References Notes Sources https://catalog.archives.gov/medialz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/08000450.pdf House at 146 East 38th Street April 9, 2008 National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service September 10, 2023 National Park Service 2008 collapsed Category:1861 establishments in New York (state) Category:Houses completed in 1861 Category:Houses in Manhattan Category:Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Manhattan Category:Italianate architecture in New York City Category:Murray Hill, Manhattan Category:New York State Register of Historic Places in New York County Category:Historic district contributing properties in Manhattan Category:Individually listed contributing properties to historic districts on the National Register in New York (state)