[2] The remaining buildings are New York City designated landmarks and listed on the National Register of Historic Places under the name LaGrange Terrace.

[3] The nine original buildings, a series of Greek revival townhouses [4] built by Seth Geer, a contractor from Albany, New York (whose name is also given as "Greer"[5]) were located at 418–426 Lafayette Place on the site of the Vauxhall Gardens Amusement Park.

[10] Their facades were made entirely of Westchester marble and linked with a colonnade of Corinthian columns providing the homes with their current name.

[6][18] In addition, Columbia Law School held classes for a time in the house that was once occupied by John Jacob Astor III.

[21][22] The four buildings that remain, numbers 428, 430, 432, and 434 Lafayette Street, were among the first to be landmarked when New York City began doing so in 1965,[23] despite having been sub-divided into apartments and commercial properties,[6] altered and generally in poor condition.