{"nrhp_refnum":"05000937","name":"Douglaston Historic District","other_names":["Douglas Manor"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Shore Rd., Marinette St., Douglas Rd. and Cherry St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Douglaston","county":"Queens","state":"NY","lat":40.77858520400005,"lon":-73.75043268127973,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2005-09-01","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 on a mile-long peninsula in Douglaston, Queens, New York, centered on the early twentieth-century planned suburb of Douglas Manor, with a few older buildings dating from the 1700s and 1800s.","why_significant":"The district is presented as an important example of an early twentieth-century planned suburb adapted to the site of a nineteenth-century estate. Its varied revival-style houses, curving streets, shared shorefront, specimen trees and covenants set by the Rickert-Finlay Company give it a distinct character. It also holds eight houses by early woman architect Josephine Wright Chapman.","narrative":"Douglaston Historic District covers more than 600 houses along landscaped streets on a mile-long peninsula reaching into Little Neck Bay, at the northeastern edge of Queens. Most homes belong to Douglas Manor, a planned suburb developed by the Rickert-Finlay Company after Queens became part of Greater New York in 1898. The suburb was laid out on the grounds of a nineteenth-century estate created by George Douglas, and much of that estate's landscaping survives, including specimen trees and a white oak believed to be 600 years old. Covenants guided the plan, which includes a shared shorefront, winding streets following the land, and houses ranging from large mansions along Shore Road to modest cottages near Udalls Cove. Styles include Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, English cottage, Arts and Crafts, Craftsman and Mediterranean Revival, mostly by local architects. Earlier survivors include the c.1735 Van Wyck House and the c.1819 Van Zandt manor house. Eight houses are by Josephine Wright Chapman.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Mostly local Queens architects, including Josephine Wright Chapman (eight houses); developer Rickert-Finlay Company","architectural_style":"Late 19th and early 20th century revivals: Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, Mission/Spanish Colonial Revival, Bungalow/Craftsman","criteria":[],"status_note":"Almost all buildings are in residential use; the district has 691 contributing and 206 noncontributing buildings, plus 3 sites.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:52.863007-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/05000937.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05000937/7d67569ec1-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05000937/7d67569ec1-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Peter Greenberg","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Douglaston_Club.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Peter Greenberg</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:Douglaston_Club.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75321076","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglaston_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5302201"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/queens/douglaston-historic-district-05000937/"}