{"nrhp_refnum":"04001026","name":"Prospect Avenue Subway Station (IRT)","other_names":[],"category":"structure","location":{"address":"Jct. of Westchester and Lonwood Aves. and Prospect St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Bronx","county":"The Bronx","state":"NY","lat":40.81970423900003,"lon":-73.90167697199996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2004-09-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Transportation","Architecture","Art","Engineering","Community Planning and Development","Social History"],"significance_levels":["national","local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"An elevated side-platform subway station on the IRT White Plains Road line in the east Bronx, New York, built in 1904 above the intersection of Westchester, Prospect and Longwood Avenues and East 160th Street.","why_significant":"The station is significant for transportation, community planning and development, and social history as part of the original Interborough Rapid Transit system, and for engineering and architectural design. Its Queen Anne-style control houses by Heins & LaFarge and the engineering by William Barclay Parsons are largely intact. It also contributed to the development of a growing residential area of the Bronx.","narrative":"Prospect Avenue Station is an elevated subway station in the east Bronx, built in 1904 as part of the original Interborough Rapid Transit line. It has two side platforms with canopies, two control houses and covered stairways down to the street. The platforms were extended in 1908. The Queen Anne-style control houses, designed by the architects Heins & LaFarge, have copper-clad walls, hipped roofs, fan gables and decorative cast-iron stair railings. The Uptown house is larger than most and has a wraparound veranda. Engineer William Barclay Parsons handled the structural design, while the architects shaped the stations' appearance. The station was recognized for its role in transportation and in the growth of a Bronx neighborhood that was becoming a residential area for the city's upper-middle class. It was also recognized for its engineering and architecture. Much of the original fabric survives, including railings, entries, interior paneling and signage brackets, and the control houses remain a visual focus at a busy intersection.","period_of_significance":"1904-1908","architect_builder":"Parsons, William Barclay (engineer); Heins, George L. and LaFarge, Christopher G. (architects)","architectural_style":"Late Victorian/Queen Anne","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Still in transit use. The Downtown control house exterior is in very good condition, while the Uptown side has some replaced roofs and covered windows.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:54.161341-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/04001026.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04001026/31fe9eaae6-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04001026/31fe9eaae6-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Jim.henderson","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Casa_Amadeo_Prospect_Av_IRT_plat_jeh.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jim.henderson</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Casa_Amadeo_Prospect_Av_IRT_plat_jeh.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75312124","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prospect_Avenue_station_(IRT_White_Plains_Road_Line)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q596784"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/the-bronx/prospect-avenue-subway-station-irt-04001026/"}