{"nrhp_refnum":"07000952","name":"75th Police Precinct Station House","other_names":["Peoples' First Baptist Church"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"484 Liberty Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Brooklyn","county":"Brooklyn","state":"NY","lat":40.67490339100004,"lon":-73.89221235699995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2007-09-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story former police precinct station house at 484 Liberty Avenue, at the corner of Miller Avenue in the Cypress Hills neighborhood of Brooklyn, built in 1886 in the Romanesque Revival style and designed by Emile M. Gruwé.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is a distinctive example of Romanesque Revival municipal architecture in Brooklyn under Criterion C. Its fortress-like forms, corner tower and medieval detailing conveyed strength and authority in a labor-class neighborhood. It is one of four such station houses known to survive in Brooklyn.","narrative":"Built in 1886 at the corner of Liberty and Miller Avenues in Brooklyn's Cypress Hills, this former police precinct station house was designed by Emile M. Gruwé in the Romanesque Revival style. Yellow brick rises above a brown sandstone foundation, with a round corner tower, round-arched windows, and a prominent arched entrance carved with a lion's head and animal corbels. A wrought iron fence from 1886 survives, and a 1926 garage block stands to the west. The building matters as an example of the fortress-like station houses Brooklyn erected in the late nineteenth century to project civic strength and authority. Gruwé also designed a nearly identical mirror-image twin for the 68th Precinct. The police left in 1973, after which a church converted the interior for worship and the garage into a parsonage. Although deteriorated, the interior largely keeps its original room divisions and finishes, and the station is one of four of its type known to survive in Brooklyn.","period_of_significance":"1886","architect_builder":"Gruwé, Emile M.","architectural_style":"Late Victorian/Romanesque Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Vacated by the Police Department in 1973 and acquired by a church, which converted the interior to church use and the garage to a parsonage. The interior is deteriorated but largely intact.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:53.673435-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/07000952.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07000952/44044c5b1e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07000952/44044c5b1e-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:75th_Precinct_Brooklyn_2.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</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:75th_Precinct_Brooklyn_2.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75318303","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/75th_Police_Precinct_Station_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4643460"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/brooklyn/75th-police-precinct-station-house-07000952/"}