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The Red House is a 1903 apartment building on the
Upper West Side The Upper West Side (UWS) is a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. It is bounded by Central Park on the east, the Hudson River on the west, West 59th Street to the south, and West 110th Street to the north. The Upper We ...
of
Manhattan Manhattan ( ) is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the Boroughs of New York City, five boroughs of New York City. Coextensive with New York County, Manhattan is the County statistics of the United States#Smallest, larg ...
in New York City. It was built on land owned by
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architect R. Thomas Short of the Beaux-Arts firm, Harde & Short. He and his firm designed and built the building in a free eclectic mix of French late Gothic and English Renaissance motifs, using red brick and limestone with bold black-painted mullions in the fenestration. The
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badge of Henri II appears high on the flanking wings and in the portico frieze. The center is recessed, behind a triple-arched screen. It was added to the
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on September 8, 1983.


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National Register of Historic Places listings in Manhattan from 59th to 110th Streets This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal gov ...
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List of New York City Designated Landmarks in Manhattan from 59th to 110th Streets The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC), formed in 1965, is the Government of New York City, New York City governmental commission that administers the city's Landmarks Preservation Law. Since its founding, it has designated ove ...


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1900s architecture in the United States 1903 establishments in New York City Gothic Revival architecture in New York City Houses completed in 1903 New York City Designated Landmarks in Manhattan Residential buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Manhattan Upper West Side {{Manhattan-NRHP-stub