{"nrhp_refnum":"83001767","name":"Cypress Avenue East Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Linden and Cornelia Sts., Seneca and St. Nicholas Aves.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Queens","state":"NY","lat":40.70272060700006,"lon":-73.90881596958832,"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 26-acre residential historic district in the Ridgewood area of Queens, New York City, covering parts of ten blocks between St. Nicholas and Seneca Avenues and between Cornelia and Linden Streets. It contains 247 structures built between 1900 and 1914, mostly three-story brick tenements.","why_significant":"The district is argued to be historically and architecturally significant as an intact, cohesive residential neighborhood. It contains imitations of the \"Mathews Flats\" model tenements first developed in Ridgewood by G.X. Mathews. Most buildings were put up in 1912-14 by builders August Bauer and Paul Stier from plans by architect Louis Berger, using the same interior layout as the Mathews Flats but different facade detailing.","narrative":"Cypress Avenue East is a 26-acre neighborhood in Ridgewood, Queens, made up of 247 structures built between 1900 and 1914. Most are three-story brick tenements with two apartments on each floor. The most distinctive feature is the alternating light and dark speckled brick on adjoining facades, laid up to imitate rusticated stone and producing horizontal bands of shadow along each row. The district matters because it preserves a cohesive group of tenements modeled on the \"Mathews Flats\" first built in Ridgewood by G.X. Mathews. Builders August Bauer and Paul Stier erected most of them in 1912-14 from plans by Louis Berger, using wide lots, interior airshafts, large windows in every room and separate sanitary facilities in each apartment. Earlier rows from 1904 and 1908 on Seneca Avenue, also designed by Berger's firm, use round brick arches that may have inspired the later Mathews Flats. The buildings remain largely intact, with only minor alterations such as new doors, awnings and storefronts.","period_of_significance":"1900-1914","architect_builder":"Louis Berger (architect); August Bauer and Paul Stier (builders); Spaeth and Hempleman and Jacob Rodler (builders of earlier rows)","architectural_style":"Renaissance, Romanesque and Romanesque Revival detail on brick tenements","criteria":[],"status_note":"Buildings remain largely intact; typical alterations include new stoops, doors, ironwork, awnings and rebuilt storefronts. Three buildings are non-contributing.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:43.399072-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/83001767.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83001767/a143a21363-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83001767/a143a21363-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"ALT55 - Victor M","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RIDGEWOOD-GLENDALE-FRESH_POND_021.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">ALT55 - Victor M</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:RIDGEWOOD-GLENDALE-FRESH_POND_021.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75314444","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cypress_Avenue_East_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5200308"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/queens/cypress-avenue-east-historic-district-83001767/"}