The Parsonage was erected in 1855 for the nearby Dutch Reformed Church. It is a clapboard house with Gothic Revival ornament. It is part of the Richmondtown Restoration effort to restore and celebrate the local heritage of Staten Island.
Designated March 4, 1969 Appealingly picturesque in its striking profile and unusual structural features, this Gothic Revival house, with its numerous steeply pitched gables, possesses a distinctive individuality and a true architectural character. The Pendleton House is a two and one-half story shingled residence with basement and has an impressive tower, which plays a dominant […]
The Samuel MacKenzie Elliott House is said to be one of more than twenty-two houses designed by Dr. Elliott, an eye surgeon of wide repute and an enthusiastic amateur architect. The house was built around 1850 in a country version of the Gothic Revival. Constructed of locally quarried random stone with twenty-three inch walls, the […]
Designated: July 13, 1976 The handsome residence at 2876 Richmond Terrace was built in c. 1853 for Stephen D. Barnes, an oysterman, and his wife Judith. This substantial brick house combines elements of the Italianate and Gothic Revival styles, both of which were popular at that date. Located in Mariners’ Harbor, it is one of […]
Designated: October 12, 1982 Constructed c. 1844 by a developer as a rental residence known as Woodland Cottage, 33-37 Belair Road was once one of the many Gothic Revival villas and cottages built in the east shore suburb of Clifton after the late 1830s. The original portion of the house is a cross-gabled, two-story section […]
Designated September 23, 1975 Stuyvesant Square was laid out in 1836, and the earliest existing houses in the district date to 1842-1843. These Greek Revivals were joined over the decade by elegant Gothic Revival, Italianate, and French Renaissance row houses and turn-of-the-century apartment houses in neo-Renaissance styles.
Designated September 20, 1966 Extended July 12, 1988 Gramercy Park, planned in 1831 and planted in 1884, is the only private park in the city. Elegant private residences in Greek Revival, Gothic Revival and Anglo-Italianate styles grew up around it. Some of the homes were converted into club buildings in the 19th century including the […]
Designated September 15, 1970 Extended February 3, 1981 Part of Clement Clark Moore’s former country estate, he developed and planned Chelsea after the Commissioners’ Plan of 1807-1811 cut an avenue and streets through his land. At its center is the General Theological Seminary and St. Peter’s, a country Gothic Revival church consecrated in 1832. Cushman […]
Designated July 12, 2011 Wallabout, a neighborhood in Northwestern Brooklyn near the former Brooklyn Naval Yards, is noted for having the largest concentration of pre-Civil War frame houses in New York City. In addition to Greek and Gothic Revival wood homes with original or early porches, cornices and other details, brick and stone row houses […]
The Fort Hamilton Parkway Entrance (1876-77) and the Green-Wood Cemetery Chapel (1911-13) are significant Green-Wood Cemetery buildings that are excellent examples of Gothic Revival design that complement the picturesque character of this historic rural cemetery. Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn was established in 1838, the fourth rural cemetery in the United States, with a landscape design […]
