Designated Historic Sites in Brooklyn

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Historic Districts


Albemarle-Kenmore Terraces Historic District

Alice and Agate Courts Historic District

Bay Ridge Parkway-Doctor’s Row Historic District

Bedford Historic District


Boerum Hill Historic District

Borough Hall Skyscraper Historic District

Brooklyn Academy of Music Historic District

Brooklyn Heights Historic District


Carroll Gardens Historic District

Chester Court Historic District

Clinton Hill Historic District

Cobble Hill Historic District


Crown Heights North Historic District

Ditmas Park Historic District

DUMBO Historic District

Eberhard Faber Pencil Company Historic District


Fillmore Place Historic District

Fiske Terrace - Midwood Park Historic District

Fort Greene Historic District

Fulton Ferry Historic District


Greenpoint Historic District

Ocean on the Park Historic District

Park Place Historic District

Park Slope Historic District


Prospect Lefferts Gardens Historic District

Prospect Heights Historic District

Prospect Park South Historic District

Stuyvesant Heights Historic District


Sunset Park 50th Street Historic District

Sunset Park North Historic District

Sunset Park South Historic District

Vinegar Hill Historic District


Wallabout Historic District



Individual Landmarks



14th Regiment Armory

Former 18th Police Precinct Station House and Stable

183-195 Broadway Building

19th Police Precinct Station House and Stable (Former)


238 President Street House, Carroll Gardens

23rd Regiment Armory

271 Ninth Street House (William B. Cronyn House)

8200 Narrows Avenue House


83rd Police Precinct Station House and Stable

Alhambra Apartments

American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) Brooklyn Office, Shelter, and Garage

Antioch (Greene Avenue) Baptist Church and Church House


Astral Apartments

Avenue H Station House

Bennet-Farrell-Feldman House

F.J. Berlenbach House


Betsy Head Play Center

Boathouse on the Lullwater of the Lake in Prospect Park

Boys High School

Brooklyn Botanic Garden Laboratory Administration Building


Brooklyn Borough Hall

Brooklyn Bridge

Brooklyn Central Office, Bureau of Fire Communications

Brooklyn City Railroad Company Building


Brooklyn Clay Retort and Fire Brick Works Storehouse

Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences (Brooklyn Museum)

Brooklyn Naval Hospital, in the Brooklyn Navy Yard

Brooklyn Public Library, Central Building


Brooklyn Public Library, DeKalb Branch

Brooklyn Public Library, Park Slope Branch

Brooklyn Public Library, Williamsburgh Branch

Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company (BRT) Central Power Station Engine House


Brooklyn Trust Company Building (Chemical Bank Building)

Brooklyn Union Gas Company Headquarters (St. Francis College)

Carroll Street Bridge

Childs Restaurant Building (Coney Island USA)


Childs Restaurant Building (Former)

Hans S. Christian Memorial Kindergarten

Church of St. Luke and St. Matthew (Episcopal)

Coe House


Colored School No. 3 (Former) (Public School 69)

Commandant's House, Quarters A

The Cyclone

Dime Savings Bank


Dime Savings Bank of Williamsburgh

Doering-Bohack House

Dry Dock#1, Brooklyn Navy Yard

Duffield Street Houses (Johnson Street Houses)


East New York Savings Bank

George B. and Susan Elkins House

James W. and Lucy S. Elwell House

Emmanuel Baptist Church


Empire State Dairy Company Building

Engine Company No. 252

Engine Company No. 253

Erasmus Hall Academy (Erasmus Hall Museum)


Erasmus Hall High School

Federal Building and Post Office

First Free Congregational Church (Polytechnic Institute Building)

Flatbush District No. 1 School (Public School 90)


Flatbush Dutch Reformed Church

Flatbush Sears

Flatbush Town Hall

Flatlands Reformed Church


Fort Hamilton Officers' Club (Casemate Fort)

Friends Meeting House

Gage and Tollner

Girls High School


Gowanus Canal Flushing Tunnel Pumping Station and Gate House

Grecian Shelter

Green-Wood Cemetery Gates

Green-Wood Cemetery Fort Hamilton Parkway Entrance and Chapel


Hanson Place Seventh Day Adventist Church

Havemeyers & Elder Filter, Pan & Finishing House (Domino Sugar Refinery)

Hecla Iron Works Building

Historic Street Lampposts, Bay Ridge


Hubbard House

Peter P. and Rosa M. Huberty House

Houses on Hunterfly Road

Imperial Apartments


Kings County Savings Bank

Lefferts Homestead

Lefferts-Laidlaw House

Dr. Maurice T. Lewis House


Lincoln Club (Mechanics Temple), Independent United Order of Mechanics of the Western Hemisphere

Litchfield Villa

Long Island Headquarters of the New York Telephone Company (Former)

Hendrick I. Lott House


F.W.I.L. Lundy Brothers Restaurant Building

Magen David Synagogue

Magnolia Grandiflora

McCarren Play Center


Montauk Paint Manufacturing Company Building

A. I. Namm & Son Department Store

National Title Guaranty Company Building

New England Congregational Church (Light of the World (La Luz del Mundo) Church)


New Lots Reformed Church

New Utrecht Reformed Church and Parish House

New Utrecht Reformed Dutch Church Cemetery

New York and Long Island Coignet Stone Company Building

New York and New Jersey Telephone and Telegraph Building (Former)

Offerman Building

Old Brooklyn Fire Headquarters

Old Gravesend Cemetery (Van Sicklen Family Cemetery)


Parachute Jump

People’s Trust Company Building

Pratt Institute Faculty Rowhouses

Pratt Institute Library


Pratt Institute Main Building

Public Bath No. 7

Public School 108

Public School 116 (Elizabeth Farrell School)


Public School 34

Public School 39

Public School 65K

Public School 71K (Beth Jacob School)


Public School 73

Public School 86 (Irvington School)

Public School 9

Public School 9 Annex


John Rankin House

Red Hook Play Center (Sol Goldman Pool)

Reformed Church of South Bushwick

Renaissance Apartments


Royal Castle Apartments

Russian Orthodox Cathedral of the Transfiguration of Our Lord

Elias Hubbard Ryder House

Shore Theater (Coney Island Theater)


Somers Brothers Tinware Factory (later American Can Company)

St. Barbara’s Roman Catholic Church

St. Bartholemew's Church

St. Casimir's Roman Catholic Church


St. George’s Protestant Episcopal Church

St. Mary's Episcopal Church

St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Sunday School and Parsonage

Shelter Pavilion and Attached Buildings, Monsignor McGolrick Park


Sidewalk Clock, 753 Manhattan Avenue

Smith & Gray Company Building

Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial Arch

South Congregational Church, Chapel, Ladies Parlor, and Rectory


State Street Houses

Steele House

Stoothoff-Baxter-Kouwenhoven House

Studebaker Building


Sunset Park Courthouse (Former)

Sunset Play Center

Surgeon's House, Brooklyn Navy Yard

Thomson Meter Company Building (New York Eskimo Pie Corporation Building)


Van Nuyse-Magaw House

Van Sicklen House

John and Elizabeth Truslow House

Weir Greenhouse(McGovern-Weir Greenhouse)


William Ulmer Brewery

Williamsburg Houses

Williamsburgh Savings Bank

Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower


Williamsburgh Trust Company Building

The Wonder Wheel

Pieter Claesen Wyckoff House

Wyckoff-Bennett Homestead




Interior Landmarks



Gage and Tollner, Interior of Ground Floor Dining Room

Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower, First Floor Interior




Scenic Landmarks



Coney Island (Riegelmann) Boardwalk

Eastern Parkway

Ocean Parkway

Prospect Park