Ditmas Park Historic District
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Ditmas Park Historic District is a national historic district
in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn
, New York, New York
. It consists of 172 contributing, largely residential buildings built between 1902 and 1914. It includes fine examples of Colonial Revival
, Bungalow/Craftsman, and Queen Anne
style single family homes. Also in the district is one church, the brick Neo-Georgian Flatbush Congregational Church (1910).
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
in 1983.
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 Ditmas Park, Brooklyn
Ditmas Park, Brooklyn
Ditmas Park is a neighborhood in western Flatbush in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, east of Kensington, and is one of three Flatbush neighborhoods which have been officially designated Historic Districts...
, New York, New York
New York City
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. It consists of 172 contributing, largely residential buildings built between 1902 and 1914. It includes fine examples of Colonial Revival
Colonial Revival architecture
The Colonial Revival was a nationalistic architectural style, garden design, and interior design movement in the United States which sought to revive elements of Georgian architecture, part of a broader Colonial Revival Movement in the arts. In the early 1890s Americans began to value their own...
, Bungalow/Craftsman, and Queen Anne
Queen Anne Style architecture
The Queen Anne Style in Britain means either the English Baroque architectural style roughly of the reign of Queen Anne , or a revived form that was popular in the last quarter of the 19th century and the early decades of the 20th century...
style single family homes. Also in the district is one church, the brick Neo-Georgian Flatbush Congregational Church (1910).
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...
in 1983.