157,159,161, and 163-165 E. 78th St., New York, New York. County/parish: New York.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places March 25, 1980. NRIS 80002685.
4 contributing buildings.
The houses at 157–165 East 78th Street are a row of five attached brick houses on that street in Manhattan, New York, United States. They are the remainder of an original group of 11 built in 1861, when the area was originally being developed due to the extension of rail transit into it.
As a result, they are among the oldest townhouses on the Upper East Side. Some of them have been added onto, and the two easternmost were combined into a single unit. They retain enough historical integrity that they were designated a New York City Landmark in 1968, and were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980 as the East 78th Street Houses.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75319459