{"nrhp_refnum":"89002259","name":"La Casina","other_names":["Pollyform Bra Company","Roxanne Swimsuit Company"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"90-33 160th St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Queens","state":"NY","lat":40.70446166800008,"lon":-73.79952208099996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1990-03-01","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story Streamlined Moderne building at 90-33 160th Street in Jamaica, Queens, New York, originally built about 1907 and redesigned about 1934-36 as a restaurant and nightclub.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is a distinctive and rare Queens example of Streamlined Moderne design, a style less common there than Art Deco. It is the only identified example of a transient restaurant/nightclub type from Jamaica's 1920s-30s boom as a regional entertainment center. It retains its ziggurat facade, original plan, and a vertical neon sign naming later industrial tenants.","narrative":"La Casina is a one-story building on 160th Street in Jamaica, Queens, just north of Jamaica Avenue. Built around 1907 for an unknown purpose, it was redesigned in the mid-1930s as a restaurant and nightclub. Its symmetrical front rises in a stepped, ziggurat-shaped form with curved corners and no applied ornament, a hallmark of Streamlined Moderne design. A stucco base holds a tile-framed entrance, and the upper levels were originally clad in painted sheet metal, now covered by aluminum. Inside, the plan survives, including a vestibule, cloak room with ticket window, a main room with pyramidal ceiling and skylight, an oval maple dance floor, original restrooms, and a kitchen. The club operated only until about 1938, after which the building served as a factory until 1987. Its original neon sign still shows the names of the later bra and swimsuit makers. The building is valued as a rare Queens example of the style and of Jamaica's 1930s entertainment district.","period_of_significance":"c.1934-c.1938","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Moderne (Streamlined Moderne)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as now vacant; used as a factory from the 1940s until 1987. Original facade material survives beneath aluminum cladding.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.595349-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/89002259.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89002259/21ebe40205-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89002259/21ebe40205-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Epicgenius","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jamaica_Queens_Nov_2025_04.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Epicgenius</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jamaica_Queens_Nov_2025_04.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75321110","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Casina","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6461583"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/queens/la-casina-89002259/"}