# Gilsey House

New York City, NY · other · tier: draft · Retrofit Atlas record `n-19ef25703c` · release 2026-10-21

Canonical: https://retrofitatlas.org/other/ny/new-york-city-gilsey-house/  
JSON: https://retrofitatlas.org/data/records/n-19ef25703c.json · Provenance: https://retrofitatlas.org/data/records/n-19ef25703c.provenance.json · API: https://retrofitatlas.org/api/v1/sites/n-19ef25703c

## Facts

| Field | Value | Provenance |
|---|---|---|
| Status | built | none |
| Strategy | reinhabit | none |
| New use | housing | none |
| What is there now | co-operative apartments | reported · model extraction, unreviewed |
| Original developer | Peter Gilsey | reported · model extraction, unreviewed |
| Redeveloper | Richard Berry and F. Anthony Zunino | reported · model extraction, unreviewed |

## Quoted support

- **architect_original**: “Stephen Decatur Hatch” — extraction-deep:nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning-30b-a3b
- **construction_cost_original_usd**: “$350,000” — extraction-deep:nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning-30b-a3b
- **hotel_rooms**: “300-room” — extraction-deep:nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning-30b-a3b

## Parties

- Richard Berry and F. Anthony Zunino — developer

## Background (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0, shortened)

Gilsey House is an eight-story, 300-room former hotel at 1200 Broadway at West 29th Street in the NoMad neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.  It is a New York City landmark and on the National Register of Historic Places.


== History ==

Gilsey House was designed by Stephen Decatur Hatch for Peter Gilsey, a Danish immigrant merchant and city alderman who leased the plot – which included the grounds of the St George's Cricket Club – from Caspar Samlar for $10,000 a year. It was constructed from 1869 to 1871 at the cost of $350,000, opening as the Gilsey House Hotel in 1872.  The cast iron for the facade of the Second Empire style building was fabricated by Daniel D.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilsey_House

## Sources

- Gilsey House — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilsey_House

## Cite

Retrofit Atlas (2026). "Gilsey House, New York City, NY." Record n-19ef25703c, release 2026-10-21, tier draft. https://retrofitatlas.org/other/ny/new-york-city-gilsey-house/ (accessed 2026-10-21).

```bibtex
@misc{retrofitatlas_newyorkcitygilseyhouse,
  title = {Gilsey House, New York City, NY},
  author = {{Retrofit Atlas}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://retrofitatlas.org/other/ny/new-york-city-gilsey-house/}},
  year = {2026},
  note = {Record n-19ef25703c, release 2026-10-21, tier: draft. Built on the Retrofitting Suburbia map (Dunham-Jones and Williamson) and the sources listed on the record. Accessed 2026-10-21}
}
```

Licence: research use only; terms undecided with the authors (https://retrofitatlas.org/licence/). Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0. Tiers: curated = from the authors' public map, not reviewed by them; draft = imported or model-extracted, unreviewed.