Clinton Hill South Historic District

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.