{"nrhp_refnum":"83003437","name":"Hamilton Park Community Houses","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"105 Franklin Ave., 66 Harvard Ave., and 32 Park Pl.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Staten Island","state":"NY","lat":40.64194547100004,"lon":-74.09082174044342,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-09-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Three surviving 19th-century houses from the original Hamilton Park suburban community in New Brighton, Staten Island, New York: the Pritchard House (66 Harvard Avenue, ca. 1853), 32 Park Place (ca. 1865), and the Hamilton Park Cottage (105 Franklin Avenue, 1860s).","why_significant":"They are the most intact surviving structures from Hamilton Park, an important early suburban residential park planned by Charles K. Hamilton from 1851-2. The community was influenced by the romantic landscape ideas of Andrew Jackson Downing and offered rural surroundings with easy ferry access to the city. The three houses show the range of popular 19th-century suburban styles used there.","narrative":"Three houses on the hillside of New Brighton, Staten Island, are the best-preserved remnants of Hamilton Park, an early suburban community. Merchant Charles K. Hamilton, a native of Halifax, Nova Scotia, bought thirty-two acres in 1851-2 and laid out large houses far apart on landscaped grounds, reached by winding carriage roads and close to the ferry to Manhattan. The design drew on the romantic ideas of Andrew Jackson Downing. The Pritchard House at 66 Harvard Avenue, from about 1853, resembles an Italian-Swiss villa with jigsaw ornament. The house at 32 Park Place, from about 1865, has a French Second Empire mansard roof with a rare double reverse curve. The Hamilton Park Cottage at 105 Franklin Avenue, from the 1860s, is Italianate, with a triple-arched porch and bay windows. Hamilton lost the property in 1878, and an 1894 lot map ended its single-ownership form. Other original buildings were heavily altered, so only these three were listed for their architectural integrity.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Italian-Swiss villa (Pritchard House), French Second Empire (32 Park Place), Italianate (Hamilton Park Cottage)","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"All three houses are occupied private residences; the Pritchard House, 32 Park Place and the Cottage are in good or very good condition, with non-contributing garages on each lot.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:42.510791-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/83003437.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83003437/8f32477aea-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83003437/8f32477aea-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Robert Haber","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hamilton_Park_Community_House_32_Park_Place_Staten_Island,_NY.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Haber</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:Hamilton_Park_Community_House_32_Park_Place_Staten_Island,_NY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75321353","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton_Park_Community_Houses","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5645090"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/staten-island/hamilton-park-community-houses-83003437/"}