Crown Heights North Historic District

The Crown Heights North Historic District is one of Brooklyn's architectural treasures, containing hundreds of buildings in the form of row houses, detached houses, churches, walk-up apartment buildings, and elevator apartment houses. Development in the neighborhood was spurred in the late nineteenth century by the 1883 opening of the Brooklyn Bridge, as well as the 1888 inception of the Kings County Elevated Railway on Fulton Street.

Notable architectural styles in the historic district include an eclectic array of Italianate, neo-Grec, Queen Anne, Romanesque Revival, neo-Colonial, Mediterranean Revival, and Tudor Revival structures. Amzi Hill, a major architect in the neo-Grec movement, designed a handsome series of row houses at 98-104 Brooklyn Avenue in 1885. Additionally, numerous Renaissance Revival row houses were constructed in the 1890s. Eastern Parkway features many six-story elevator apartment buildings from the early decades of the twentieth century.

The built fabric of Crown Heights North has changed only slightly since the 1930s. Subsequently, much of the architectural character is intact and these structures retain their important aesthetic characteristics. ©2014