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Photograph of Hotel Albert
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Hotel Albert

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1889.

From the record

“Hotel Albert, also known as The Albert and Albert Apartments, is a historic hotel and apartment complex located in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Lower Manhattan, New York City. The hotel was noted for being popular among artists, musicians, writers, and political radicals.”

Wikipedia article Hotel Albert (New York City), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 601 National Register listings published here for New York County · listed in 2012 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 23 E. 10th St., Manhattan, 10003
  • When was it listed? June 2012
  • Category. building
  • Borough. Manhattan
  • Architectural style. Renaissance Revival architecture, Neoclassical architecture
  • National Register reference number. 12000329 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Then and now

1889 to 1995

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 106 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Hotel Albert, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet covering Hotel Albert, surveyed 1889

Fires near this property

1,276 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,276 fires within 5 miles of Hotel Albert between 1995 and 2020, burning about 394 acres in total. 83 started naturally. 94 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined818
Arson/incendiarism94
Smoking89
Natural83
Equipment and vehicle use61
Misuse of fire by a minor46
Debris and open burning40
Fireworks23
Recreation and ceremony9
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Other causes4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
9 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2005Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
8 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.9 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in New York County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Hotel Albert: 8 occurrences, 3 past producers, 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Graphite, Manganese. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
102nd St & 4th Ave Garnet DepositGarnet, GemstoneOccurrence
49th St & 1st Ave Beryl DepositBerylliumOccurrence
64th St & 10th Ave Stilbite DepositZeolitesOccurrence
69th/70th Sts & 2nd Ave DepositIron, Garnet, TitaniumOccurrence
Dixon Crucible/ Jersey City, N.J.GraphiteUnknown
General Metallic Oxides/Jersey CityManganeseUnknown
Manhattan Island OccurrenceMolybdenumOccurrence
John S. Lane and Son's QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer1897
Wagner & Duff Stone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer1890, 1895
Week's Trap QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer1898

Every working recorded in New York County

Maps showing this location

16 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Lincoln Buildingunder 500 feet1983
New York Marble Cemeteryunder 500 feet1980
Macmillan Building0.1 miles2006
14th Street-Union Square Subway Station (IRT; Dual System BMT)0.1 miles2005
Building at 821 Broadway0.1 miles2024
Union Square0.1 miles1997

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 12000329 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
New York CountyAll 601 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
  • Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.