Cobble Hill Historic District

Cobble Hill is a Brooklyn neighborhood of more than twenty-two blocks between Atlantic Avenue, Court, Degraw and Hicks Streets, lying just south of Brooklyn Heights. Residential development began in the mid-1830s with rows of Greek Revival town houses, and later decades added Gothic Revival, Italianate, Neo-Grec, Romanesque Revival and Queen Anne buildings. Brick and brownstone dominate, and the ironwork is notably varied. Two churches stand out: Christ Church, designed by Richard Upjohn in 1841-42, and the Strong Place Baptist Church, designed by Minard Lafever in 1851-52. The district is also known for pioneering low-cost housing financed by Alfred Tredway White in the 1870s, including the Home Buildings, the Tower Buildings and the landscaped Warren Place courtyard of small houses. Twenty buildings added after 1900 match the earlier masonry in scale and quality. Commerce stays mostly on Atlantic Avenue and Court Street, so the interior blocks remain residential.