The city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission has designated a new historic district in Prospect Heights encompassing some 850 single-family row houses, apartment houses and institutional and commercial buildings built between the mid-19th and early 20th centuries.The Prospect Heights Historic District is the largest created since the Upper West Side-Central Park West Historic District was designated in 1990.
The new district, north of Prospect Park, is bounded by Atlantic Avenue, Eastern Parkway, Flatbush Avenue and Washington Avenue.
The Prospect Heights neighborhood was developed after the completion of the 585-acre Prospect Park in 1873 -- and the coming of rapid transit.
Two 1850s frame buildings at 578 and 580 Carlton Avenue are the earliest structures in the neighborhood. The earliest row houses, mostly in the neo-Grec, Italianate, Anglo Italianate or Second Empire styles, date from the mid-1800s, with later Romanesque and Renaissance Revival style houses dating from the late 1800s. Several buildings are in early 20th century retro styles like Colonial Revival and neo-Georgian.
The district includes the Romanesque Revival Duryea Presbyterian Church, the 1885 Public School 9 Annex and the 1938 Art Moderne Mount Prospect Laboratory, which now houses Community School District 13.
The article from the Times Cityroom Blog.Mayor Bloomberg's press release on the new historic district, from NYC.Gov.
Queens Crap puts the new landmark district in context.
