Designated June 24, 2003 The district’s forty-two buildings including row houses, apartment houses, warehouses, factories and offices represent the various shifts in the neighborhood over a century. Federal brick row houses survive from the first period of development in the early 19th century. As immigration increased the neighborhood’s population later in the century, speculative multiple-family […]
Designated November 3, 1971 The Mount Morris Park Historic District in Harlem consists primarily of attractive late 19th- and early 20th century row houses, designed in the Romanesque Revival, neo-Grec, Queen Anne and other styles inspired by the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago of 1893. The district’s designation report makes note of the “unusually handsome townhouses” that […]
Designated: June 18, 2002 Hamilton Heights/Sugar Hill Northwest Historic District includes approximately 97 buildings. The district contains 62 rowhouses built between 1881 and 1898, in several different styles including Neo-Grec, Queen Anne, Neo-Renaissance, and Beaux-Arts. There is also one freestanding mansion, dating from 1887.
Designated April 29, 1969 Extended May 2, 2006 and June 22, 2010 Greenwich Village became a village after the American Revolution. The 1807-11 gridiron street plan bypassed the Greenwich Village historic districts and the area kept its low scale nature. The district is known for its collection of early New York row houses in a variety of […]
Designated July 23, 1974 Expanded December 21, 1993 Several building types can be found within this district built primarily from the late 1870s to the early 1930s. Brick and brownstone row houses were built in the last decades of the 19th century in the neo-Grec, Romanesque Revival and Renaissance Revival styles. After Andrew Carnegie moved […]
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 […]
Designated June 23, 2009 The Prospect Heights Historic District includes approximately 850 buildings, predominately single-family row houses and apartment buildings, constructed mostly from the mid-19th to early 20th century. The oldest buildings in the district date from the 1850s. The district contains a variety of architectural styles common during this period including Italianate (some with Second-Empire […]
Designated April 17, 2012 Park Slope Historic District Extensions I & II include approximately 892 buildings in total, which consists of a mix of single-family homes, row houses and apartment buildings. The earliest houses in these extensions were built in the Italianate style c. 1869-75. Later other style were incorporated including Neo-Grec, Queen Anne, and Romanesque […]
Designated July 17, 1973 Tree-lined streets, wide avenues and rows and rows of brownstones make up this turn-of-the-century Brooklyn neighborhood. Some of the finest Romanesque Revival homes in the country can be found here along with examples of Italianate, French Second Empire, Queen Anne, Neo-Grec and Victorian Gothic design.
Designated September 14, 1982 The first buildings in Greenpoint Historic District were erected in the early 1850s. Elegant row houses were built for business owners, while more modest row houses and apartments were home to the workers of nearby factories. The latter were vernacular versions of popular styles, including Italianate, French Second Empire, Neo-Grec and […]
