{"nrhp_refnum":"11000229","name":"Wallabout Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"73-83 & 123-141 Cleremont;74-148 & 75-143 Clinton;381-387, 403-421 & 455-461 Myrtle;74-132 & 69-149 Vanderbilt Aves...","address_restricted":false,"city":"Brooklyn","county":"Brooklyn","state":"NY","lat":40.69663324600006,"lon":-73.96849100225714,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2011-04-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential and mixed-use historic district of 203 contributing buildings on five blocks in the Wallabout neighborhood of northern Brooklyn, between Myrtle and Park Avenues, with buildings dating from about the 1830s to the early 1900s.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the district holds the largest concentration of pre-Civil War frame houses in New York City, along with rare gable-fronted row houses and a range of mid-to-late nineteenth-century row houses, flats and tenements. It also contains three notable industrial and commercial buildings, including the Drake Brothers Bakery. It retains a vernacular mid-nineteenth-century neighborhood character better than any other district in the city.","narrative":"Five blocks of northern Brooklyn between Myrtle and Park Avenues make up this district of 203 contributing buildings, mostly rowhouses, flats and a few factories. Development reached the Wallabout area in the 1830s, and the earliest building is a Federal and Greek Revival clapboard house on Vanderbilt Avenue, probably built in the early 1830s. The district is notable for what is described as the largest concentration of pre-Civil War frame houses in New York City, plus rare gable-fronted Gothic Revival and Italianate row houses on Clermont and Vanderbilt Avenues. Brick Italianate and Anglo-Italianate rows followed in the 1850s and 1860s, then Neo-Grec rows by Brooklyn architects in the 1870s and 1880s. Working-class tenements include Queen Anne examples by Parfitt Brothers from 1888. Three industrial buildings, led by the Drake Brothers Bakery, add variety. Many wooden houses have been resided, but the rarity of the resource keeps its significance intact. Original ironwork and bluestone sidewalks also survive.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Various, including Parfitt Brothers, Henry S. Lion, Ebenezer L. Roberts, Robert Dixon, John C. Rustin, Andrew Spence and John McKeefrey; many houses by speculative builders","architectural_style":"Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, Italianate, Second Empire, Queen Anne, Neo-Grec, Beaux Arts, Colonial Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Mostly still in residential, commercial and industrial use; some frame buildings have been resided, and a few vacant lots and construction sites exist.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:48.794389-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/11000229.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/11000229/48ab8e50a0-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/11000229/48ab8e50a0-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Michelb101","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vanderbilt_Avenue.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Michelb101</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:Vanderbilt_Avenue.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75318550","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallabout_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22329614"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/brooklyn/wallabout-historic-district-11000229/"}