{"nrhp_refnum":"99000059","name":"Jackson Heights Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Bounded by Roosevelt Ave., Broadway, Leverich St., Northern Blvd., and 90th St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Queens","county":"Queens","state":"NY","lat":40.75186912850003,"lon":-73.88710423907901,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1999-01-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A planned garden-city residential district of about 300 acres in central Queens, New York City, laid out from 1913 by the Queensboro Corporation under Edward A. MacDougall. The nominated area covers about ninety acres and eighty-one city blocks.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the district as a pioneering planned community of block-plan garden apartment complexes and block-plan houses, adapting English Garden City ideas to an urban street grid. The work of architects George H. Wells and Andrew J. Thomas, whose garden apartment design served as a model for later housing programs, is highlighted. The district also stands out for its landscaped interior gardens and its early planning for the automobile.","narrative":"Jackson Heights is a planned garden-city neighborhood in central Queens, about five miles from downtown Manhattan. The Queensboro Corporation began laying it out in 1913 under Edward A. MacDougall, and the nominated area covers roughly ninety acres across eighty-one blocks. Its character comes from block-plan garden apartment complexes, six stories high, wrapped around landscaped interior gardens, along with attached and semi-detached houses, small commercial buildings, schools, churches and parks. Architects George H. Wells and Andrew J. Thomas shaped the apartment complexes, and Thomas's system of block ventilation and apartment planning later served as a model for state and federal housing programs. Houses built from 1924 to 1929 adapted Garden City ideas to a street grid and made provision for automobiles through garages and driveways. Facades are mostly brick in Georgian, Tudor, Mediterranean, Art Deco and Moderne styles. The district contains 2,226 contributing resources, and its historic street plan is counted as part of the significance.","period_of_significance":"1913-1949","architect_builder":"Queensboro Corporation (developer); architects George H. Wells, Andrew J. Thomas, Charles Peck, Robert Tappan, C.F. & D.E. McAvoy, Philip Birnbaum, Julius Fishkin","architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals (Georgian, Tudor, Mediterranean/Spanish, Art Deco, Moderne)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Still in residential use, with some alterations to buildings and the loss of the original 34th Avenue median landscaping.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:50.855511-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/99000059.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99000059/b6b7d06e7c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99000059/b6b7d06e7c-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 2.5","author":"The original uploader was Jleon at English Wikipedia.","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NYC_Jackson_Heights_3.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">The original uploader was Jleon at English Wikipedia.</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 2.5</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NYC_Jackson_Heights_3.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75321098","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107614620"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/queens/jackson-heights-historic-district-99000059/"}