{"nrhp_refnum":"82001180","name":"Knickerbocker Field Club","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"114 E. 18th St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Brooklyn","state":"NY","lat":40.64776287700005,"lon":-73.96328211599996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-10-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story Colonial Revival clubhouse at 114 East 18th Street in Flatbush, Brooklyn, built in 1892-93 to designs by the Parfitt Brothers. It is the only surviving building of the Tennis Court suburban development.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is an excellent example of Colonial Revival architecture by a prominent Brooklyn firm. It is the sole survivor of the Tennis Court development, one of Flatbush's earliest planned residential developments. It retains integrity of design, materials and use, and recalls the era when Flatbush was a fashionable suburb.","narrative":"Knickerbocker Field Club is a long, two-story clubhouse at 114 East 18th Street in Brooklyn's Flatbush neighborhood. Built in 1892-93 and designed by the Parfitt Brothers, it is the only surviving building of Tennis Court, a suburban development begun in 1886 by Richard Ficken. The clapboard and shingle building has a gambrel roof, a deep porch on Doric columns, and dormers topped with broken-scroll pediments, a Palladian window and a crenellated parapet. The club began in 1889 as a lawn tennis group formed by local residents, built a small clubhouse in 1890, and replaced it after membership grew. Bowling alleys from the first building were kept in the basement. Once surrounded by large frame houses, eight tennis courts and a nine-hole golf course, the site now holds five courts amid high-rise apartments. The club bought the land in 1911 and still operates there. The clubhouse is valued as an excellent example of Colonial Revival design and as a reminder of Flatbush's era as a fashionable suburb.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"Parfitt Brothers","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied and still in use as an active private club; five of the original eight tennis courts remain, while the golf course and surrounding houses are gone.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:43.218282-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/82001180.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82001180/6dc9529d4c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82001180/6dc9529d4c-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Knickerbocker_Field_Club_replacement_bldg.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</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:Knickerbocker_Field_Club_replacement_bldg.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75318427","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knickerbocker_Field_Club","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6422049"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/brooklyn/knickerbocker-field-club-82001180/"}