{"nrhp_refnum":"83001770","name":"Fresh Pond-Traffic Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Fresh Pond Rd., Traffic Ave., Woodbine and Linden Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Queens","state":"NY","lat":40.709705747000044,"lon":-73.8966457302634,"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 14-acre historic district of 197 brick row houses and tenements along Linden Street, Gates Avenue and Palmetto Street in Ridgewood, Queens, New York City, built between 1914 and 1921.","why_significant":"It is an intact example of the last phase of large-scale working-class row house development in Ridgewood. A single firm, Bauer and Stier, Inc., built it and Louis Berger designed every row, which gave it uniform scale, materials and detailing. Its cream-colored iron-spot brick laid to imitate rusticated stone sets it apart from Ridgewood's other districts.","narrative":"Along Linden Street, Gates Avenue and Palmetto Street in Ridgewood, Queens, 197 brick buildings form a 14-acre district of mostly two-story row houses with one apartment per floor. They were built between 1914 and 1921, with work paused in 1916-18 because of World War I. Bauer and Stier, Inc., Ridgewood's largest builders, developed the area, and Louis Berger designed every row, so setbacks, scale, materials and detailing are uniform. The most distinctive feature is cream-colored iron-spot brick laid up to imitate rusticated stone, combined with brownstone stoops, foliated keystones, and pressed metal cornices with swags and egg and dart moldings. Compared with Ridgewood's older districts, the detailing is more angular and simplified, and easier box bays replaced the earlier round bays. The district marks one of the last large developments of attached houses before later neighborhoods added driveways and rear garages. Alterations are limited largely to replacement doors and metal awnings.","period_of_significance":"1914-1921","architect_builder":"Louis Berger (architect); Bauer and Stier, Inc. (builder)","architectural_style":"Romanesque and Renaissance Revival detail","criteria":[],"status_note":"Buildings remain largely unaltered; typical changes are replacement doors and metal awnings over entrances. No non-contributing buildings are listed.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:42.740266-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/83001770.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83001770/69d43db23f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83001770/69d43db23f-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_111.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_111.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75314434","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fresh_Pond%E2%80%93Traffic_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5502999"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/queens/fresh-pond-traffic-historic-district-83001770/"}