Park Slope Historic District

Park Slope Historic District covers about thirty-three blocks of Brooklyn beside Prospect Park, made up almost entirely of rowhouses, mansions, churches and low apartment houses. Development took place in roughly five decades between the Civil War and World War I. The oldest houses, at 8 through 16 Seventh Avenue, date from 1860 and are Italianate. Other notable buildings include the Montauk Club on Eighth Avenue, Grace Methodist Episcopal Church of 1882, and the Brooklyn Ethical Culture Society building on Prospect Park West. The district contains late Italianate, Second Empire, neo-Grec, Victorian Gothic, Queen Anne and Romanesque Revival work, followed by neo-Renaissance, neo-Classical, neo-Federal and neo-Georgian styles. It was listed because of the quality and consistency of its blockfronts, with deep front yards, uniform rooflines and church spires. The nomination notes that its streets present vistas largely unchanged since the turn of the century, and its boundaries match those of the city-designated district of 1973.