{"nrhp_refnum":"96001355","name":"Stuyvesant Heights Historic District (Boundary Increase)","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly, Decatur St. from Tompkins to Lewis Aves.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Brooklyn","county":"Brooklyn","state":"NY","lat":40.68052074050004,"lon":-73.94103269408811,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1996-11-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A boundary increase to the Stuyvesant Heights Historic District in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, covering portions of seven blocks along Decatur Street and adjacent streets south of the original district. It adds 151 contributing buildings, mostly rowhouses built c. 1882-1926.","why_significant":"The expansion is argued to share the same historical development, architects, builders, styles and residents as the original district, completing the possible expansion to the south. It contains architecturally distinguished late nineteenth-century residential design, including Neo-Grec, Queen Anne, Romanesque Revival and Neo-Renaissance buildings. It also illustrates the change of the area from rural farmland to an urbanized part of the city of Brooklyn.","narrative":"This addition to the Stuyvesant Heights Historic District in central Brooklyn takes in parts of seven blocks along Decatur Street and neighboring streets, directly south of the district listed in 1975. It holds 151 contributing buildings, three noncontributing buildings and one vacant lot. Most are two- and three-story rowhouses with raised basements and high stoops, built mainly between 1884 and the early 1890s. Neo-Grec brownstone and brick fronts predominate, alongside Queen Anne, Romanesque Revival and Neo-Renaissance designs. Seventeen modest multiple dwellings and one church also appear. Several rows have unusually wide cornices incorporating attic windows, a feature found in significant numbers only in central Brooklyn. The earliest buildings date to 1882 and the latest is a 1926 apartment house. The form argues that the area shares architects, developers, styles and residents with the original district, and that its buildings record the shift from farmland to a built-up neighborhood of the city of Brooklyn. The expansion was recognized for architecture and for community planning and development.","period_of_significance":"c. 1882-1926","architect_builder":"various","architectural_style":"Late Victorian: Italianate, Second Empire, Neo-Grec, Queen Anne, Romanesque Revival, Renaissance","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The buildings remain in residential use as single and multiple dwellings; some have lost cornices, stoops or other original details, and one site is a vacant lot.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:50.868551-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/96001355.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96001355/f2cb89ef5e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96001355/f2cb89ef5e-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Decatur_Stuyvesant_Heights_HD_2.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</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:Decatur_Stuyvesant_Heights_HD_2.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"75001193","name":"Stuyvesant Heights Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/new-york/stuyvesant-heights-historic-district-75001193/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75318537","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7629271"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/brooklyn/stuyvesant-heights-historic-district-boundary-increase-96001355/"}