{"nrhp_refnum":"80002636","name":"Park Slope Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Prospect Park West, Berkeley Pl., 15th St., 6th, 7th and Flatbush Aves.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Brooklyn","state":"NY","lat":40.66645692700004,"lon":-73.9787887323538,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-11-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A large, almost exclusively residential historic district of about thirty-three blocks in Park Slope, Brooklyn, next to Prospect Park, roughly 150 acres, developed between the Civil War and World War I.","why_significant":"The district is significant mainly for the outstanding quality and coherence of its late nineteenth and early twentieth century architecture. Its development was closely tied to Prospect Park and occurred within about five decades. It includes Romanesque Revival houses described as the finest in the city, and its rowhouse blockfronts, churches and low scale remain largely unchanged.","narrative":"Park Slope Historic District covers about thirty-three blocks of Brooklyn beside Prospect Park, made up almost entirely of rowhouses, mansions, churches and low apartment houses. Development took place in roughly five decades between the Civil War and World War I. The oldest houses, at 8 through 16 Seventh Avenue, date from 1860 and are Italianate. Other notable buildings include the Montauk Club on Eighth Avenue, Grace Methodist Episcopal Church of 1882, and the Brooklyn Ethical Culture Society building on Prospect Park West. The district contains late Italianate, Second Empire, neo-Grec, Victorian Gothic, Queen Anne and Romanesque Revival work, followed by neo-Renaissance, neo-Classical, neo-Federal and neo-Georgian styles. It was listed because of the quality and consistency of its blockfronts, with deep front yards, uniform rooflines and church spires. The nomination notes that its streets present vistas largely unchanged since the turn of the century, and its boundaries match those of the city-designated district of 1973.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late Italianate, French Second Empire, neo-Grec, Victorian Gothic, Queen Anne, Romanesque Revival, neo-Renaissance, neo-Classical, neo-Federal and neo-Georgian","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as largely undisturbed, with many houses preserved with little change; some rebuilding has introduced small sections of modern architecture. A few vacant lots are noted.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:43.047277-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/80002636.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80002636/64e1faf134-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80002636/64e1faf134-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 4.0","author":"Jim.henderson","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:330_7th_Av_Bk_2021_jeh.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jim.henderson</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:330_7th_Av_Bk_2021_jeh.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75318475","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_Slope_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7138025"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/brooklyn/park-slope-historic-district-80002636/"}