{"nrhp_refnum":"83001763","name":"68th Avenue-64th Place Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly 64th Pl. from Catalpa Ave. to 68th Ave. from 64th St. to 65th St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Queens","state":"NY","lat":40.70576508100004,"lon":-73.89396227599997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-09-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential historic district of 46 brick row houses along 68th Avenue and 64th Place in Ridgewood, Queens, New York City, built between 1909 and 1913 by developer Charles Groesch to designs by architect Louis Berger.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the district is an intact, cohesive neighborhood of distinctive working-class row houses from early twentieth-century Ridgewood. A single developer and a single architect gave it uniform setbacks, scale and materials. It retains almost complete integrity of plan, scale and design, including all of its pressed metal cornices.","narrative":"This district in Ridgewood, Queens, is a group of 46 buildings along 68th Avenue and 64th Place, covering about 3.5 acres across parts of four city blocks. Nearly all are two-story brick row houses with one apartment per floor, built between 1909 and 1913. Developer Charles Groesch hired one architect, Louis Berger, to design every row, which produced consistent setbacks, scale and materials. Alternating shades of yellow, amber, brown and burnt orange brick break up the length of each row. Other features include brownstone stoops, elaborate ironwork, pressed metal cornices and cast-stone bands, sills, lintels and keystones, with Romanesque, Neo Grec and Renaissance Revival ornament. Small front gardens sit behind the setbacks, while corner buildings reach the lot line to anchor each row. The district was listed because it survives as a cohesive example of working-class housing from early twentieth-century Ridgewood. All metal cornices remain, as do most original doors, stoops and ironwork, and no non-contributing buildings lie within its boundaries.","period_of_significance":"1909-1913","architect_builder":"Louis Berger (architect); Charles Groesch (developer)","architectural_style":"Romanesque and Renaissance Revival ornament, with Neo Grec detail on some rows","criteria":[],"status_note":"Buildings remain largely intact; all pressed metal cornices survive, along with most original double doors, ironwork and stoops. Awnings have been added and corner storefronts on 68th Avenue rebuilt.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:43.462353-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/83001763.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83001763/b69c09e5f0-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83001763/b69c09e5f0-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Rublov","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:68th_Avenue%E2%80%9364th_Place_Historic_District.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Rublov</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:68th_Avenue%E2%80%9364th_Place_Historic_District.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75314426","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/68th_Avenue%E2%80%9364th_Place_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4642348"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/queens/68th-avenue-64th-place-historic-district-83001763/"}