{"nrhp_refnum":"83001698","name":"Prospect Heights Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Pacific and Bergen Sts., Flatbush and Vanderbilt Aves., and Park Pl.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Brooklyn","state":"NY","lat":40.67936757250007,"lon":-73.97298871115356,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-09-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential historic district in Brooklyn, New York, roughly bounded by Pacific and Bergen Streets, Flatbush and Vanderbilt Avenues, and Park Place. It has over 300 row houses and multiple dwellings, nearly all built in the last thirty-five years of the nineteenth century.","why_significant":"Prospect Heights is described as one of Brooklyn's famous brownstone neighborhoods, lined with post-Civil War row houses built for the growing middle class. Most are fine examples of the Italianate and Neo-Grec styles, with some Romanesque Revival and Neo-Renaissance buildings. Most buildings have changed little, giving a rare view of late nineteenth-century Brooklyn residential streets.","narrative":"Prospect Heights is a Brooklyn neighborhood of more than 300 row houses and multiple dwellings, built mostly between the 1860s and the early 1890s, with a few turn-of-the-century additions. The district is often called one of the city's brownstone neighborhoods. Its houses were built for the growing middle-class population of what was then the independent city of Brooklyn. Speculative builders put up most of them, many without architects, and the majority are Italianate or Neo-Grec in style. Smaller groups reflect French Second Empire, Romanesque Revival and Neo-Renaissance design, including a row of narrow Romanesque Revival houses designed in 1893 by Magnus Dahlender and Neo-Renaissance houses by John Crown from 1899. Before development, the area was farmland along the Flatbush Turnpike, now Flatbush Avenue. Almost all buildings keep their original detailing, and only five intrusions are identified, mostly garages. Together the streets show what late nineteenth-century residential Brooklyn looked like.","period_of_significance":"c.1865-c.1915","architect_builder":"Various","architectural_style":"Italianate, French Second Empire, Neo-Grec, Romanesque Revival, Neo-Renaissance","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition is listed as excellent, good and fair; the district is mostly unaltered and includes both occupied and unoccupied properties. Five intrusions are noted, four of them garages.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:42.566244-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/83001698.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83001698/0470c1cbab-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83001698/0470c1cbab-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Jim.henderson","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bergen_St_%26_Carlton_Av_jeh.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Jim.henderson</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bergen_St_%26_Carlton_Av_jeh.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"16000018","name":"Prospect Heights Historic District (Boundary Increase)","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/new-york/prospect-heights-historic-district-boundary-increase-16000018/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75318483","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prospect_Heights_Historic_District_(New_York_City)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7250747"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/brooklyn/prospect-heights-historic-district-83001698/"}