Designated: June 25, 2024 The Willoughby-Hart Historic District, encompassing Willoughby Avenue and Hart Street between Marcy and Nostrand Avenues, offers an especially cohesive and highly intact streetscape of late 19th-century neo-Grec, Second Empire, and Romanesque Revival row houses, which create a unique sense of place. Architect Isaac D. Reynolds designed nearly 50 buildings within the […]
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 […]
Designated December 9, 2014 The Central Ridgewood Historic District is significant as an intact grouping of approximately 990 buildings and sites, most of which are brick row houses, representing one of the most harmonious, and architecturally-distinguished enclaves of working-class dwellings built in New York City during the early twentieth century. The historic district is located […]
With its sharply defined, expressive outline and its good proportions, this Church is a fine example of the early phase of the Romanesque Revival style of architecture. Built in 1862 and bordering on historic Richmondtown, its pleasing appearance is not derived from any elaborate design, but rather from its structural projections and from the interesting […]
Edgewater Village Hall was built at the end of the nineteenth century as a municipal and city magistrate’s courthouse. Originally serving the village of Edgewater, the Romanesque Revival hall stands on a small, landscaped public square called Tappan Park.
One of Staten Island’s few remaining nineteenth-century public school buildings, the Public School 20 Annex (originally District School 6 of Northfield Township) is a large and architecturally distinctive structure built in the 1890s in the northern, most densely populated section of the island. Essentially Romanesque Revival in style, P.S. 20 Annex also displays elements drawn […]
The Vanderbilt Mausoleum is an extraordinary monument to America’s Gilded Age. Built by the country’s wealthiest family of the time and combining the talents of two of America’s greatest designers—Richard Morris Hunt and Frederick Law Olmsted—it was hailed as “the most magnificent tomb of any private individual” and “the most costly mausoleum in America” following […]
Designated June 21, 1966 The Sniffen Court Historic District is comprised of ten Romanesque Revival brick carriage houses built in the 1850s. Most were converted into residences when the automobile replaced horse and carriages in the 1920s.
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 […]
