National Register Listing

Tenement Building at 97 Orchard Street

a.k.a. Lower East Side Tenement Museum

97 Orchard St., New York, NY
Local significance of the building:
European; Social History; Architecture

Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

The National Register of Historic Places is the official list of the Nation’s historic places worthy of preservation. Authorized by the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, the National Park Service’s National Register of Historic Places is part of a national program to coordinate and support public and private efforts to identify, evaluate, and protect America’s historic and archeological resources.