{"nrhp_refnum":"83001769","name":"Forest-Norman Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Forest Ave. from Summerfield to Stephen St. and Norman St. to Myrtle Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Queens","state":"NY","lat":40.69968781000006,"lon":-73.89903409899995,"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 three-acre residential historic district in Ridgewood, Queens, New York City, made up of 37 brick row houses and tenements along Forest Avenue and Norman Street, built between 1908 and 1910.","why_significant":"The district is described as an intact, cohesive neighborhood of row houses and tenements reflecting working-class housing development in early twentieth-century Ridgewood. Different builders used uniform setbacks, scale and materials, with complementary Romanesque and Renaissance Revival ornament. It retains a high degree of integrity, with all pressed metal cornices intact.","narrative":"Thirty-seven buildings along Forest Avenue and Norman Street in Ridgewood, Queens, form a compact three-acre district of early twentieth-century working-class housing. Built between 1908 and 1910, the group consists mainly of two-story brick row houses with one apartment per floor, plus two-story brick tenements with two apartments per floor. Several builders worked to a common scheme of setbacks, scale and materials, and used Romanesque and Renaissance Revival ornament. Louis Berger, described as Ridgewood's most prolific architect, designed notable rows, including 59-02 to 59-28 Norman Street, built by Henn and Ballweg in 1910 with burnt orange brick and tinted mortar, and a Forest Avenue row built by J. and G. Burkardt in 1908 with checker-bonded brick. Unbroken lines of pressed metal cornices and ornamental ironwork unify the streets. All cornices survive, along with most original doors, ironwork and stoops, and no buildings within the boundaries are considered non-contributing.","period_of_significance":"1908-1910","architect_builder":"Louis Berger (architect); Henn and Ballweg and J. and G. Burkardt (builders)","architectural_style":"Romanesque and Renaissance Revival ornament (Neo Grec and Renaissance Revival on part of Norman St.)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Most buildings remain largely unaltered; awnings have been added over several entrances and some corner storefronts rebuilt. No non-contributing buildings.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:42.290359-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/83001769.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83001769/28a34767f1-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83001769/28a34767f1-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Rublov","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Forest-Norman_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:Forest-Norman_Historic_District.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75314446","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest%E2%80%93Norman_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5468777"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/queens/forest-norman-historic-district-83001769/"}