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.
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.
No. 31 Cornelia Street was the home of the Caffe Cino a coffee shop and experimental theater venue from 1958-1968. The Caffe Cino is significant as the birthplace of Off-Off Broadway and New York City's first gay theater.
NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission Designation Report for Sunset Play Center Bath House, First Floor Interior. This report includes the summary of the building and its description.
Designation report for the Sunset Park South Historic District which represents the largest collection of well-preserved row houses in the Sunset Park neighborhood that recall Sunset Park's originals and history as a middle-class community.
Designation report for the Sunset Park North Historic District which consists of well-preserved early 20th century row houses and flats, buildings that recall the neighborhood's transformation into a working- and middle-class community.
Designation Report for the Sunset Park 50th Street Historic District which consists of two cohesive rows of remarkably well-preserved brownstone houses between Fourth and Fifth Avenues that represent the turn-of-the-century development of Sunset Park