{"nrhp_refnum":"02001115","name":"Senator Street Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"318-370 and 317-347 Senator St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Brooklyn","county":"Brooklyn","state":"NY","lat":40.62709052950004,"lon":-74.02493343312133,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2002-10-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential historic district of 38 brownstone row houses and three garages on both sides of Senator Street between Third and Fourth Avenues in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, built 1906-1912 and designed by Fred W. Eisenla of Eisenla & Carlson.","why_significant":"It is the only block in Bay Ridge with brownstone row houses lining both sides of the street, and all were designed by one architect as a unified project. Though the houses look identical, much of the carved ornament is unique to each house. It also reflects speculative row house development of the period, qualifying under architecture and community planning.","narrative":"Senator Street between Third and Fourth Avenues in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, holds a unified block of 38 three-story, bow-front brownstone row houses, along with three garages. Fred W. Eisenla of the firm Eisenla & Carlson designed the houses in the neo-Renaissance style, and they were built as speculative housing between 1906 and 1912 on land once owned by industrialist Joseph Wild and subdivided after his wife's death in 1898. At first glance the houses appear identical, but nearly every carved element, including capitals, rosettes and panels beneath the parlor windows, differs from house to house. Only the lion's head on each stoop railing and the top rosette over each entry are the same throughout. The block is the only one in Bay Ridge with brownstone rows on both sides of the street. It was recognized for its architecture and for what it shows about speculative development in early twentieth-century Brooklyn. Its period of significance runs from 1906 to 1920.","period_of_significance":"1906-1920","architect_builder":"Eisenla, Fred W., of Eisenla & Carlson","architectural_style":"Late 19th & 20th Century Revivals/Neo-Renaissance","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Still in use as row house dwellings, single and multiple; all 38 roof entablatures intact and most original doors and details retained; one stoop removed (No. 354).","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:53.954168-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/02001115.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02001115/c41c911506-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02001115/c41c911506-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Rlaro66","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Senator_Street_Front.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Rlaro66</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Senator_Street_Front.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75318513","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senator_Street_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7450065"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/brooklyn/senator-street-historic-district-02001115/"}