Crow Hill & Nassau Brewery Historic Districts
Crow Hill & Nassau Brewery Historic Districts
- Bergen Street, Crow Hill Historic District
Crow Hill & Nassau Brewery Historic Districts
- Park Place, Crow Hill Historic District
Crow Hill & Nassau Brewery Historic Districts
- Park Place, Crow Hill Historic DistrictThe State Historic Preservation Office recently accepted the Conservancy’s proposal for two new historic districts in Brooklyn to be eligible for listing on the State and National Registers of Historic Places: the Crow Hill Historic District and the Nassau Brewery Historic District.
Wedged between the neighborhoods of Clinton Hill, Prospect Heights, and Crown Heights in Brooklyn are intact blocks with properties of high architectural quality and interest. One area between Franklin and Bedford avenues known as “Crow Hill” contains approximately 750 buildings, mostly Italianate, Neo-Grec, Romanesque Revival, and Queen Ann style row houses constructed in the last decades of the 19th century. The Nassau Brewery District is a nearby complex of about 10 industrial structures constructed from 1850 – 1890, some of which were the former Nassau Brewery.
Conservancy staff and Karen Mathiasen, a graduate intern from Pratt Institute’s Historic Preservation Program, surveyed the areas and developed proposals for the two new districts, which the Conservancy submitted to the State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) this summer. In July, the SHPO determined that the Crow Hill and Nassau Brewery districts are eligible for listing on the State and National Registers of Historic Places.
The Conservancy’s initiative to create eligible districts is keyed directly to the need to expand the areas in which the Conservancy’s Historic Properties Fund (HPF) can function. HPF is a revolving loan fund which provides collateralized financing and project management assistance for restoring buildings in low- and moderate-income neighborhoods of New York City. It is the Conservancy’s main vehicle for bringing low cost financing into the City’s many older neighborhoods. The minimal criterion for an HPF loan: the property must be contributing to a State/National Register-eligible historic district.
Since this initiative began in 2007, the Conservancy’s work has resulted in the addition of approximately 2,460 additional properties that qualify for HPF loans. The newly-eligible Crow Hill and Nassau Brewery Historic Districts are the eighth and ninth historic districts to achieve the distinction of eligibility as a result of the Conservancy’s efforts.
The other eligible historic districts (numbers of buildings) are:
Bradhurst, Manhattan (100)
Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn (400)
Highland Park, Brooklyn (100)
Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn (1,100 total) in four areas:
- Bedford-Stuyvesant East Central
- Cripplebush Road
- Shannon’s Garden
- Bedford-Stuyvesant West
