{"nrhp_refnum":"88001464","name":"Sunset Park Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Fourth Ave., Thirty-eighth St., Seventh Ave. and Sixty-fourth St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Brooklyn","county":"Brooklyn","state":"NY","lat":40.648263049000036,"lon":-74.0044889438791,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1988-09-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A large residential historic district in the Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, covering 3,237 contributing buildings on seventy-one blocks plus Sunset Park itself, mostly built from the 1890s into the 1920s.","why_significant":"The district is an architecturally cohesive neighborhood of row houses, multiple dwellings and mixed-use buildings that share a low-rise scale and use of materials. Its buildings show a progression from neo-Grec and Romanesque Revival to neo-Renaissance styles, and it includes unusual Finnish cooperative apartments with central courts. The excerpt does not give the full significance statement.","narrative":"Sunset Park Historic District covers much of the Brooklyn neighborhood of Sunset Park, running up to twenty-seven blocks north to south and three blocks wide. It holds 3,237 contributing buildings across seventy-one blocks, plus Sunset Park itself. The area is mainly residential, with a low-rise scale of two-story row houses and three- to five-story apartment buildings, and mixed-use buildings with shops below and apartments above line the avenues, especially Fifth Avenue. Brick is the main facade material, with stone rows concentrated between Fourth and Fifth avenues. Building styles trace a progression from frame houses with Italianate and neo-Grec detail, through Queen Anne and Romanesque Revival forms of the 1890s, to the neo-Renaissance style that dominates the district. Many houses were built by speculative builders as two-family homes. Finnish cooperative apartments arranged around central courts add an unusual note. Churches, schools and banks supply the main institutional landmarks. Together the buildings create a cohesive neighborhood set apart from its surroundings.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Henry Spicer & Son; George Walkinshaw; Robert W. Frith; Thomas W. Edwards; Thomas Bennett; Koch & Wagner; Cohn Bros.; and other speculative builders and builder/architects","architectural_style":"Neo-Grec, Queen Anne, Romanesque Revival, neo-Renaissance","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition is given as excellent, good and fair, with both altered and unaltered buildings. Many frame houses have been resided, and 205 non-contributing buildings and 14 non-contributing vacant sites are noted.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.252524-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/88001464.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88001464/36fd0407a2-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88001464/36fd0407a2-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"GK tramrunner229","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FromSunsetPark.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">GK tramrunner229</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FromSunsetPark.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75318539","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunset_Park,_Brooklyn","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2270906"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/brooklyn/sunset-park-historic-district-88001464/"}