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Date Published:: 2024-06-25
Description:: Historic district comprised of neo-Grec style row houses along Willoughby Avenue and Hart Street between Norstrand and Marcy avenues in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn
Agency:: Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC)
Subject(s):: Architecture and Brooklyn
Report Type:: Other

Date Published:: 2024-06-18
Description:: Designed by McKenzie, Voorhees & Gmelin for the Brooklyn Edison Company and built between 1922-1926, this highly visible Renaissance Revival style building is a notable landmark in the civic and commercial center of Brooklyn.
Agency:: Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC)
Subject(s):: Landmarks, Buildings, and Brooklyn
Report Type:: Other

Date Published:: 2023-05-09
Description:: A striking collection of architecturally significant row houses along Linden Street between Broadway and Bushwick Avenue that stands out in the neighborhood as an intact and distinctive example of South Bushwick’s late-19th-century development, with a variety of complementary styles.
Agency:: Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC)
Subject(s):: Landmarks and Brooklyn
Report Type:: Other

Date Published:: 2022-12-13
Description:: The Melrose Parkside Historic District is a remarkably cohesive and intact group of 38 single-family row houses and two-family duplexes located on Parkside Avenue between Flatbush and Bedford avenues in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn.
Agency:: Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC)
Subject(s):: Landmarks and Brooklyn
Report Type:: Other

Date Published:: 2022-11-22
Description:: A Renaissance Revival-style row house designed by Axel Hedman in 1908 that has served since 1991 as the headquarters of the Lesbian Herstory Archives, the nation’s oldest and largest collection of lesbian-related historical material.
Agency:: Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC)
Subject(s):: Landmarks, Brooklyn, and Buildings
Report Type:: Other

Date Published:: 2021-02-02
Description:: A c. 1848-1851 brick row house significant for its association with Harriet and Thomas Truesdell who lived there from 1851 to 1863 and were active abolitionists in Brooklyn before the Civil War.
Agency:: Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC)
Subject(s):: Brooklyn, Buildings, and Architecture
Report Type:: Other

Date Published:: 2020-11-17
Description:: Framing East 25th Street between Clarendon Road and Avenue D in Brooklyn’s Flatbush neighborhood, the East 25th Street Historic District is a remarkably cohesive and intact group of row houses built by a single developer, the Henry Meyer Building Company, in the Renaissance Revival style.
Agency:: Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC)
Subject(s):: Buildings, Brooklyn, and Architecture
Report Type:: Other

Date Published:: 2020-11-10
Description:: Monumental orphanage building designed by George H Streeton in the Renaissance Revival and Beaux-Arts styles for the Sisters of Mercy, the 1899 Angel Guardian Home symbolizes the importance of religious social services in the Progressive Era and is prominent within the neighborhood of Dyker Heights.
Agency:: Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC)
Subject(s):: Buildings, Brooklyn, and Architecture
Report Type:: Reports - Other (Consultant/Staff)

Date Published:: 2019-10-29
Description:: Designed by Renwick, Aspinwall and Tucker, the ASPCA's finest surviving structure in New York City and the horse drinking fountain in front of it constitute an elegant reminder of the early promotion of humane treatment of animals, and New York's central role in the national anti-cruelty movement.
Agency:: Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC)
Subject(s):: Architecture, Buildings, and Brooklyn
Report Type:: Other

Date Published:: 2019-10-29
Description:: Gowanus Canal Flushing Tunnel Pumping Station and Gate House was built in the early 20th century to house the mechanical systems needed to flush the Gowanus Canal , it represents one of the most important infrastructure projects in Brooklyn.
Agency:: Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC)
Subject(s):: Architecture, Buildings, and Brooklyn
Report Type:: Other

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