{"nrhp_refnum":"84002451","name":"Fort Greene Historic District (Boundary Increase)","other_names":["See Also:Fort Greene Historic District","Williamsburgh Savings"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Ashland Pl., DeKalb Ave., Hanson Pl., and Oxford St., Adelphi, Vanderbilt and Myrtle Aves.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Brooklyn","state":"NY","lat":40.69332321300004,"lon":-73.97405449452299,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-09-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A boundary expansion of the Fort Greene Historic District in Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, adding 379 buildings in three sections, mostly row houses built from the 1850s onward, plus commercial, institutional and industrial buildings.","why_significant":"The expansion area was found to be historically part of the Fort Greene neighborhood and to contain the same kinds of buildings as the original district. It holds some of the earliest development in the neighborhood, from the 1850s and 1860s, along with later construction showing continued growth into the early twentieth century. It also includes rare cast-iron commercial fronts and major institutions such as the Brooklyn Academy of Music.","narrative":"This 1984 expansion of the Fort Greene Historic District in Brooklyn adds 379 buildings in three sections to the north, west and south of the original district. Most are row houses, and a larger share are brick-fronted than in the original district because they date to the earliest building period. The oldest houses, from the 1850s and 1860s, show the shift from Greek Revival to Italianate design, and later rows include Anglo-Italianate, French Second Empire and Neo-Grec examples. Later apartment houses, an artist's studio building for Charles Pratt, and early twentieth-century construction show the neighborhood continued to grow. Fulton Street contributes mixed-use buildings, including rare cast-iron fronts of 1882. Churches, clubs and schools reflect the area's prosperity, and three large landmarks stand within it: the Williamsburgh Savings Bank, Brooklyn Technical High School and the Brooklyn Academy of Music. The area was added because research showed the historic neighborhood extended beyond the first boundary.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Various, including William Tubby, Lamb & Rich, Lawton & Field, Herts & Tallant, Charles A. Snedecker, Laurence B. Valk, Voorhees, Gmelin & Walker, and builders such as Peter Donlon, Daniel Bonnett, Effingham Nichols and Henry Alexander","architectural_style":"Italianate row houses predominate, with Greek Revival transitional, Anglo-Italianate, French Second Empire, Neo-Grec, Romanesque Revival, Neo-Renaissance and Neo-Gothic buildings","criteria":[],"status_note":"Of 379 buildings in the expansion, 33 are non-contributing; some are altered, and a few vacant lots exist. Condition is marked as ranging from excellent to deteriorated.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:42.597107-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/84002451.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84002451/a0801b734b-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84002451/a0801b734b-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Adolph Alexander Weinman","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prison_Ship_Martyrs%27_Monument_and_flags.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Adolph Alexander Weinman</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:Prison_Ship_Martyrs%27_Monument_and_flags.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75318395","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Greene_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5471252"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/brooklyn/fort-greene-historic-district-boundary-increase-84002451/"}