{"nrhp_refnum":"12000797","name":"Old Stone House of Brooklyn, The","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"3rd St. at 5th Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Brooklyn","county":"Brooklyn","state":"NY","lat":40.67502793800003,"lon":-73.98415797699994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2012-09-19","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story limestone and brick building with a one-and-a-half-story brick wing in Washington Park (J.J. Byrne Playground) in Park Slope, Brooklyn, built in 1935 by the New York City Parks Department as a Colonial Revival commemorative of the Vechte-Cortelyou House.","why_significant":"The building is significant as an early twentieth-century commemorative of the Vechte-Cortelyou House and the 1776 Battle of Long Island. It expresses local patriotic sentiment and decades of preservation and commemoration efforts. It is not nominated as a reconstruction or for a direct link to the battle.","narrative":"Set in the middle of Washington Park, a heavily urbanized part of Park Slope, this stone and brick building was constructed in 1935 by the New York City Parks Department. It was built as a comfort station for James J. Byrne Park, one of five Model Playgrounds created by relief workers during the Great Depression. The design drew on the colonial appearance of the Vechte-Cortelyou House, a 17th-century structure that played a tactical role in the August 1776 Battle of Long Island and was later buried and lost. The new building borrowed features such as diapered brickwork, stepped gables and iron 1699 numerals, and it stands about 250 feet from the original site. It is not an exact copy and is not nominated as a reconstruction. Its importance lies in what it represents: local commitment to commemorating Brooklyn's colonial and Revolutionary War past. Today it serves as a museum, gallery and community space.","period_of_significance":"1935","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Colonial Revival","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"Currently used as a museum, exhibit gallery, community center and educational space within a city park.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:48.333216-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/12000797.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/12000797/780a5c00c4-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/12000797/780a5c00c4-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Dmadeo","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old-stone-house-brooklyn.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Dmadeo</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:Old-stone-house-brooklyn.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75318471","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Stone_House_(Brooklyn)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7085115"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/brooklyn/old-stone-house-of-brooklyn-the-12000797/"}