Fort Greene Historic District (Boundary Increase)

This 1984 expansion of the Fort Greene Historic District in Brooklyn adds 379 buildings in three sections to the north, west and south of the original district. Most are row houses, and a larger share are brick-fronted than in the original district because they date to the earliest building period. The oldest houses, from the 1850s and 1860s, show the shift from Greek Revival to Italianate design, and later rows include Anglo-Italianate, French Second Empire and Neo-Grec examples. Later apartment houses, an artist's studio building for Charles Pratt, and early twentieth-century construction show the neighborhood continued to grow. Fulton Street contributes mixed-use buildings, including rare cast-iron fronts of 1882. Churches, clubs and schools reflect the area's prosperity, and three large landmarks stand within it: the Williamsburgh Savings Bank, Brooklyn Technical High School and the Brooklyn Academy of Music. The area was added because research showed the historic neighborhood extended beyond the first boundary.