Crown Heights North Historic District
Crown Heights North Historic District, National historic district in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, United States.
The district contains 1,019 buildings, including rowhouses, townhouses, apartment buildings, and institutional structures spread across 102 acres of urban landscape.
The area transformed from farmland to suburban settlement in 1854 when the Lefferts family auctioned land parcels, marking the start of the village of Bedford.
The district displays Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, Italianate, Second Empire, Queen Anne, Romanesque Revival, Renaissance Revival, Beaux-Arts, and Colonial Revival architecture.
The district boundaries extend between Atlantic Avenue and Eastern Parkway, with numerous residential buildings available for viewing from public streets.
The 2016 expansion included buildings connected to Shirley Chisholm, who served as the first African-American woman in Congress.
Location: Brooklyn
Inception: 1942
GPS coordinates: 40.67667,-73.94528
Latest update: March 5, 2025 20:32
Brooklyn Museum
1.7 km
Fulton Street
1.5 km
Eastern Parkway
1.1 km
Boys High School
874 m
23rd Regiment Armory
668 m
Brooklyn Children's Museum
273 m
Library of Agudas Chassidei Chabad
871 m
Girls' High School
650 m
Herbert Von King Park
1.5 km
13th Regiment Armory
1.1 km
Fulton Park
1.1 km
Jewish Children's Museum
911 m
Magnolia grandiflora
1.5 km
Renaissance Apartments
749 m
Billie Holiday Theatre
368 m
Kol Israel Synagogue
1.2 km
Our Lady of Victory Church
672 m
Lincoln Club
1.4 km
Macon Library
1.1 km
Alhambra Apartments
661 m
Park Place Historic District
933 m
Shaari Zedek Synagogue
1.6 km
Kismet Temple
692 m
Clinton Hill South Historic District
1.2 km
James W. and Lucy S. Elwell House
1.4 km
Stuyvesant Heights Historic District
823 m
Loew's Kameo Theatre
889 m
Turner Towers
1.7 kmReviews
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