{"nrhp_refnum":"72000853","name":"Hunterfly Road Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"1698, 1700, 1702, 1704, 1706, 1708 Bergen St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Brooklyn","state":"NY","lat":40.67461838600008,"lon":-73.92610088399994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1972-12-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Social History","Architecture","Black"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A district of four small wood-frame houses on the south side of Bergen Street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, along a surviving fragment of the seventeenth-century Hunterfly Road. The houses date from about 1830 to 1993.","why_significant":"The houses illustrate nineteenth-century African American settlement in eastern Brooklyn, the community of Weeksville. Their siting on the old road fragment preserves a colonial-era rural pattern that the surrounding street grid erased. The 1702-04 house is believed to be the oldest building in the district.","narrative":"Four small wood-frame houses on Bergen Street in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood sit along a surviving fragment of Hunterfly Road, a seventeenth-century route that once linked farms with Jamaica Bay. Most of the surrounding land was leveled and fitted to the street grid in the 1880s, yet these lots and the old right-of-way were kept. The house at 1702-04 Bergen Street, a one-story double house dating to about 1830, is believed to be the oldest. The houses at 1698 and 1700 were built around 1883-1886. The fourth house, at 1706-08, burned and was replaced in 1993 by a replica, so it is counted as non-contributing. All four were later owned by one owner and rented to tenants. The group is tied to the nineteenth-century African American community of Weeksville and preserves evidence of early Brooklyn settlement that is otherwise absent from the modern streetscape. Restorations in the 1980s altered windows, roofs, and interiors. The district includes three contributing buildings and the road right-of-way as a contributing structure.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"No style","criteria":[],"status_note":"Current functions listed as museum and vacant. The house at 1706-08 Bergen Street was rebuilt in 1993 as a replica after a fire and is classed as non-contributing. The 1980s restorations changed several buildings.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:39.346885-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/72000853.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72000853/5e91ee9226-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72000853/5e91ee9226-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Anonitect (talk)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hunterfly_road_houses.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Anonitect (talk)</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hunterfly_road_houses.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75318415","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weeksville_Heritage_Center","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7979549"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/brooklyn/hunterfly-road-historic-district-72000853/"}