{"nrhp_refnum":"76001225","name":"Cobble Hill Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Atlantic Ave., Court, Degraw and Hicks Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Brooklyn","state":"NY","lat":40.69461441000004,"lon":-73.9938111084185,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1976-06-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential historic district of more than twenty-two city blocks in Brooklyn, New York, roughly bounded by Atlantic Avenue, Court, Degraw and Hicks Streets. Development began in the mid-1830s, and the district forms a southern extension of the Brooklyn Heights Historic District.","why_significant":"The district keeps its largely intact 19th-century residential character, with a wide range of styles from Greek Revival to Romanesque Revival and early 20th-century designs. It holds churches by Richard Upjohn and Minard Lafever, and one of the earliest housing projects in the country: Alfred T. White's Home Buildings, Tower Buildings and Warren Place. Its quantity, quality and variety of brick and brownstone architecture and ironwork rank with the best areas in the city.","narrative":"Cobble Hill is a Brooklyn neighborhood of more than twenty-two blocks between Atlantic Avenue, Court, Degraw and Hicks Streets, lying just south of Brooklyn Heights. Residential development began in the mid-1830s with rows of Greek Revival town houses, and later decades added Gothic Revival, Italianate, Neo-Grec, Romanesque Revival and Queen Anne buildings. Brick and brownstone dominate, and the ironwork is notably varied. Two churches stand out: Christ Church, designed by Richard Upjohn in 1841-42, and the Strong Place Baptist Church, designed by Minard Lafever in 1851-52. The district is also known for pioneering low-cost housing financed by Alfred Tredway White in the 1870s, including the Home Buildings, the Tower Buildings and the landscaped Warren Place courtyard of small houses. Twenty buildings added after 1900 match the earlier masonry in scale and quality. Commerce stays mostly on Atlantic Avenue and Court Street, so the interior blocks remain residential.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Richard Upjohn; Minard Lafever; William Field & Son; D'Oench & Simon; E.L. Roberts","architectural_style":"Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, Italianate, Romanesque Revival, Neo-Grec, Queen Anne, and early 20th-century Beaux Arts, Colonial Revival and Art Deco","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition is marked excellent and altered; the district is occupied and mostly private, with residential use and commercial activity concentrated on Atlantic Avenue and Court Street.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:38.890085-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/76001225.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76001225/72c93c1451-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76001225/72c93c1451-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Beyond My Ken","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:206_-_224_Kane_Street_Brooklyn.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Beyond My Ken</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:206_-_224_Kane_Street_Brooklyn.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"66000524","name":"Brooklyn Heights Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/new-york/brooklyn-heights-historic-district-66000524/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75318351","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobble_Hill_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5138803"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/brooklyn/cobble-hill-historic-district-76001225/"}