{"nrhp_refnum":"86001675","name":"Clinton Hill South Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly Lefferts and Brevoort Pl. between Washington Ave. and Bedford Pl.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Brooklyn","state":"NY","lat":40.681009196000076,"lon":-73.9618254126934,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1986-07-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential historic district of 246 contributing buildings on parts of ten blocks in Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, between Fulton Street and Atlantic Avenue at the southern edge of Clinton Hill and Bedford-Stuyvesant. Buildings date from the 1850s to the early twentieth century.","why_significant":"The district holds a concentration of intact Italianate, Neo-Grec, Second Empire, Romanesque Revival, Queen Anne and later row houses, villas and apartment buildings. Together they show about seven decades of continuous development. Many were designed by prominent Brooklyn architects and builders, and the area forms a visually unified residential enclave between two major thoroughfares.","narrative":"Clinton Hill South is a compact residential district in Brooklyn, laid out on parts of ten blocks between Fulton Street to the north and Atlantic Avenue to the south. It contains 246 contributing buildings, mostly three-story brownstone and brick row houses raised above high basements, with a few freestanding villas, apartment buildings, two churches and a parochial school. The earliest structures are 1850s houses with Greek Revival and Italianate detail. Most development came between the mid 1860s and the 1880s, when active Brooklyn builders and then architects such as Amzi Hill and Robert Dixon produced rows in Italianate, Neo-Grec, Second Empire, Queen Anne and Romanesque Revival styles. Vacant land was filled in during the early twentieth century with row houses and apartment buildings. The district is notable for its consistent scale, materials and ornament, including some of Brooklyn's finest Neo-Grec rows and an unusual Italianate row with elliptical openings on Washington Avenue. Its quiet streets are visually separate from the commercial avenues that bound it.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Amzi Hill, Robert Dixon, Thomas B. Jackson, Mercein Thomas, J.H. Mason, Benjamin Linikin, William Field & Son, L.B. Valk, J.S. Frost, Parfitt Brothers, Slee & Bryson, Frank S. Lowe, Neville & Bagge, Gustave E. Steinback","architectural_style":"Italianate, Anglo-Italianate, Neo-Grec, French Second Empire, Romanesque Revival, Queen Anne, Neo-Renaissance, Beaux-Arts, Greek Revival, Colonial Revival/Neo-Georgian","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition is marked fair, with some buildings altered or deteriorated; the district includes seven intrusions, some vacant lots and a mix of occupied and unoccupied buildings.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.960793-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/86001675.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86001675/0f78073e27-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86001675/0f78073e27-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"ALT55-VictorM","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Clinton_Hill_South,_Historic_District,_Roughly_Lefferts_and_Brevoort_Pl._between_Washington_Ave._and_Bedford_Pl.,_Clinton_Hill,_Kings_County,_New_York.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">ALT55-VictorM</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:Clinton_Hill_South,_Historic_District,_Roughly_Lefferts_and_Brevoort_Pl._between_Washington_Ave._and_Bedford_Pl.,_Clinton_Hill,_Kings_County,_New_York.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75318349","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_Hill_South_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5134150"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/brooklyn/clinton-hill-south-historic-district-86001675/"}