{"nrhp_refnum":"00001151","name":"DUMBO Industrial District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Main and Washington Sts, East River, John St., Bridge and Jay Sts., and Front and York Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Brooklyn","county":"Brooklyn","state":"NY","lat":40.70283801100007,"lon":-73.9877891038866,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2000-09-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Industry"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic industrial district of 95 contributing buildings across twenty-four blocks on the northwestern Brooklyn waterfront in Kings County, New York, mostly late-19th and early-20th-century factories and warehouses, east of the Fulton Ferry Historic District.","why_significant":"The district is described as a cohesive group of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century factories and warehouses that retain a high degree of integrity. It shows the evolution of industrial construction from slow-burning mill buildings to early reinforced-concrete factories. It also includes work by notable Brooklyn architects such as William Tubby and William Higginson.","narrative":"Along the Brooklyn waterfront, between the Manhattan Bridge and the Fulton Ferry area, sits a group of 95 contributing industrial buildings on twenty-four blocks. Most are factories and warehouses from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, many on streets still paved with Belgian block and fitted with rail tracks that once served the waterfront. Early factories used slow-burning mill construction with brick facades and wood framing. Later buildings adopted terra-cotta floor arches, steel frames and, from 1905-06, tall reinforced-concrete construction, as at the Bliss, Gair, Arbuckle and Kirkman buildings. Companies such as E.W. Bliss, Arbuckle Brothers, John Masury & Son and Miller & Van Winkle shaped the area. Architects included William Tubby and William Higginson. Despite conversions to lofts, residences and offices, the buildings retain integrity to a high degree. A few early Greek Revival houses also survive.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"William Tubby; William Higginson; J. Irving Howard; Benjamin Finkensieper; Mercein Thomas; George L. Morse; Robert Dixon; Marshall J. Morrill; Edward N. Stone; builders include Turner and the Expanded Metal Engineering Company","architectural_style":"Mid-19th Century: Greek Revival; Late Victorian: Italianate, Romanesque Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Many buildings retain industrial use; others are now artist lofts, residences, offices or social service space. Some blocks are vacant land.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:50.999866-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/00001151.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75318369","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DUMBO_Industrial_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5206299"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/brooklyn/dumbo-industrial-district-00001151/"}