{"nrhp_refnum":"72000851","name":"Flatbush Town Hall","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"35 Snyder Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Brooklyn","state":"NY","lat":40.648965340000075,"lon":-73.95675835699996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1972-07-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick town hall with a three-story tower at 35 Snyder Avenue in Flatbush, Brooklyn, built in 1874-75 as the municipal seat of the town of Flatbush. John Y. Culyer was the architect and William Vause the builder.","why_significant":"The nomination presents it as a surviving example of the polychrome High Victorian Gothic Revival style used for civic buildings of the 1870s. It also recalls the period when Flatbush was a green, self-governing village. The building housed village offices, police, a polling place and a public assembly hall.","narrative":"Flatbush Town Hall, at 35 Snyder Avenue in Brooklyn, was built in 1874-75 as the municipal seat of the town of Flatbush. A Board of Improvement oversaw construction, and the town provided $40,000 for the site and building. John Y. Culyer designed it and William Vause built it. The two-story red brick building has a three-story tower, bands of stone, pointed arches and a steep mansard roof, all typical of the polychrome Gothic Revival style of the 1870s. Inside, it held offices for village officials and police, served as a polling place, and had a second-floor hall used for public assemblies and balls. After Flatbush joined the City of Brooklyn in 1894, it served as a magistrate's court, police station and community center. The building stood vacant from 1924 to 1926, then was renovated for $50,000 and reopened as a police station. Its significance rests on its architecture and on its role as a reminder of Flatbush as a distinct nineteenth-century village.","period_of_significance":"1874-75","architect_builder":"John Y. Culyer, architect; William Vause, builder","architectural_style":"Ruskinian (polychrome) Gothic Revival / High Victorian Gothic","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied and in good condition at the time of nomination. It housed the 67th Police Precinct, which was about to move to new quarters.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:38.655659-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/72000851.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72000851/5aedc17a8f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72000851/5aedc17a8f-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Jim.henderson","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flatbush_Town_Hall_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:Flatbush_Town_Hall_jeh.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75318387","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatbush_Town_Hall","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5457876"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/brooklyn/flatbush-town-hall-72000851/"}