{"nrhp_refnum":"83001691","name":"Fort Greene Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Ft. Greene Pl., Fulton St., Vanderbilt and Myrtle Aves.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Brooklyn","state":"NY","lat":40.68867977700006,"lon":-73.97337352918447,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-09-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Landscape Architecture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national","local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic urban district in the Fort Greene neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City, covering about 105 acres. It takes in nineteen blocks of mostly 1840-1890 townhouses plus the 33-acre Fort Greene Park.","why_significant":"The nomination calls the district an unusually significant and rare concentration of architecturally distinguished nineteenth-century townhouses, with compatible churches, commercial buildings and later institutional and apartment buildings. It also includes a major urban park designed by Olmsted and Vaux. The park holds the Prison Ship Martyrs' monument by McKim, Mead and White, on the site of 1776 and 1814 fortifications.","narrative":"Fort Greene is a Brooklyn neighborhood of about 105 acres, made up of nineteen blocks and a 33-acre park. Its character comes from continuous rows of three- and four-story sandstone townhouses built mostly between 1840 and 1890, largely as speculative development. Facades show the Greek Revival, Italianate, Second Empire and Neo-Grec styles in succession. Churches, commercial buildings and a few later apartment and institutional buildings, including a 1906 Masonic Temple, add variety. Fort Greene Park rises on a rocky prominence where Fort Putnam was begun in 1776 and Fort Greene was built in 1814. Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux redesigned it in 1868. At its summit, a 200-foot Doric column designed by McKim, Mead and White and completed in 1908 honors Revolutionary War prisoners who died on British prison ships. Little new construction followed the neighborhood's decline after 1930, so the historic streetscapes and their relationships remain largely intact.","period_of_significance":"1840-1932","architect_builder":"various; Olmsted and Vaux (park, 1868); McKim, Mead and White (monument, 1908)","architectural_style":"Greek Revival, Italianate, Second Empire and Neo-Grec townhouses, with later eclectic styles","criteria":[],"status_note":"Mostly occupied, with a mix of commercial, educational, religious and residential uses. A few buildings are noted as vacant or abandoned, and some are altered or deteriorated. The district is described as experiencing a renaissance.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:42.503795-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/83001691.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83001691/a0801b734b-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83001691/a0801b734b-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Adolph Alexander Weinman","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prison_Ship_Martyrs%27_Monument_and_flags.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Adolph Alexander Weinman</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:Prison_Ship_Martyrs%27_Monument_and_flags.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75318393","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Greene_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5471252"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/brooklyn/fort-greene-historic-district-83001691/"}