Cooper Avenue Row Historic District is a national historic district

Historic district (United States)

In the United States, a historic district is a group of buildings, properties, or sites that have been designated by one of several entities on different levels as historically or architecturally significant. Buildings, structures, objects and sites within a historic district are normally divided...

 in Ridgewood, Queens

Ridgewood, Queens

Ridgewood is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens. It borders the neighborhoods of Maspeth, Middle Village and Glendale, as well as the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bushwick. Historically, the neighborhood straddled the Queens-Brooklyn boundary. The neighborhood is part of Queens...

, New York

New York

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. It includes seven contributing buildings built in 1915. They consist of two story, flat front brick rowhouse

Terraced house

In architecture and city planning, a terrace house, terrace, row house, linked house or townhouse is a style of medium-density housing that originated in Great Britain in the late 17th century, where a row of identical or mirror-image houses share side walls...

 dwellings with one apartment

Apartment

An apartment or flat is a self-contained housing unit that occupies only part of a building...

 per floor. They are constructed of yellow brick with burnt orange brick details. They feature some of Ridgewood's most striking and elaborate brickwork.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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in 1983.