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Red House (Manhattan)

Red House (Manhattan)

United States historic place

The Red House is a 1903 apartment building on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. It was built on land owned by Canadian 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 salamander badge of Henri II appears high on the flanking wings and in the portico frieze. The center is recessed, behind a triple-arched screen.

Not to be confused with Red House, New York.
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It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 8, 1983.

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    "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.

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