Crown Heights North III Historic District

Designated March 24, 2015

The Crown Heights North III Historic District comprises more than 600 buildings, including single- and two-family row houses, flats buildings, and apartment houses primarily built from the 1870s to the 1930s. These buildings represent the wealth of architectural styles that flourished in Brooklyn during this period, including the Neo-Grec, Queen Anne, Romanesque Revival, Renaissance Revival, Beaux Arts, Colonial Revival, Arts and Crafts, and Art Deco styles.

The district also includes one of Brooklyn’s great houses of worship, the former Shaari Zedek Synagogue (Eisendrath & Horowitz, 1923-25) at the southeast corner of Kingston Avenue and Park Place, and the city’s earliest, most extensive, and most stylistically diverse collection of “Kinko” houses, remarkable two-family duplex houses that enjoyed a brief period of popularity in Brooklyn from 1905 to about 1913. Also noteworthy are the inviting residential enclaves of Revere, Hampton, and Virginia Places, consisting of picturesque well-preserved row houses grouped along short midblock streets.

On its west, this district adjoins the Crown Heights North and Crown Heights North II Historic Districts, designated in 2007 and 2011, which together contain more than 1,000 buildings of similar age, style, and type. The Crown Heights North III Historic District extends these districts eastward from Brooklyn and Kingston Avenues to Albany Avenue, ranging from the north side of Pacific Street southward eight blocks to Lincoln Place.

Although the Crown Heights North III Historic District has experienced many changes over its history, it remains a remarkably well-preserved testament to the quality of Brooklyn’s residential architecture at the turn of the 20th century, and is a worthy complement to the earlier designated Crown Heights North and Crown Heights North II Historic Districts.

*Excerpt from Landmark Preservation Commission Designation Report

STATUS Designated Historic District

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