{"nrhp_refnum":"83004872","name":"Lefferts Manor Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Lincoln Rd., Fenimore St., Rogers Ave. and Flatbush Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Brooklyn","county":"Brooklyn","state":"NY","lat":40.65511640850005,"lon":-73.95817481840609,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1992-05-18","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential historic district in the northern Flatbush section of Brooklyn, New York, made up of one large area and three small noncontiguous areas of rowhouses and freestanding houses built between about 1895 and 1925, including the eight-block Lefferts Manor development.","why_significant":"It is a largely intact middle-class residential area of Romanesque Revival, neo-Renaissance and neo-Federal rowhouses by prominent Brooklyn architects. It is the only substantial rowhouse area in the old village of Flatbush/Midwood, and it was built on the Lefferts family farm under restrictive covenants. Maple Street is cited as an outstanding New York example of the 'white city' movement.","narrative":"Prospect Lefferts Gardens is a group of Brooklyn residential blocks at the northern edge of Flatbush, built mainly between 1895 and 1925. It includes one large area and three small separate areas, and contains brick and stone rowhouses along with some freestanding wood and masonry houses. Much of it lies on the former Lefferts family farm, which James Lefferts divided in 1893 into about 600 building lots for a development called Lefferts Manor. Covenants set the size, setback, cost and materials of houses and limited them to one-family use, a rule still in effect. Architects such as Slee & Bryson, Axel Hedman and Benjamin Driesler designed Romanesque Revival, neo-Renaissance, neo-Federal and Colonial Revival houses for middle-class buyers. Building came in three phases, with roughly 160 houses in 1895-99, 507 in 1905-11 and 87 in 1915-24. The district is notable as the only substantial rowhouse area in old Flatbush, and Maple Street is singled out as a fine example of 'white city' planning.","period_of_significance":"c.1895-c.1925","architect_builder":"Various; including Slee & Bryson, Axel Hedman, Benjamin Driesler, Frank S. Lowe, William A. Miller, Caughy & Evans, George T. Morse, Peter Collins and A.E. White","architectural_style":"Late Romanesque Revival, neo-Renaissance, neo-Federal, Colonial Revival, neo-Tudor and neo-Medieval","criteria":[],"status_note":"Largely intact and occupied, mostly private residences; one 1939 six-story apartment building at 150 Lefferts Avenue is noted as an intrusion.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:44.69095-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/83004872.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83004872/fc32ae4ce2-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83004872/fc32ae4ce2-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Elisa Rolle","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lefferts_Manor_Historic_District.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Elisa Rolle</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:Lefferts_Manor_Historic_District.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75318431","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lefferts_Manor_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15242197"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/brooklyn/lefferts-manor-historic-district-83004872/"}