Proposed Park Slope Historic District Extension II. Image Credit: LPC.

Like the existing district, proposed extension would largely be characterized by 19th-century rowhouses, ecclesiastical structures, and 20th-century apartment buildings. On October 29, 2013, the Landmarks Preservation Commission held a hearing on the potential designation of the Park Slope Historic District Extension II. The proposed extension would lie to the north and west of the existing Park Slope Historic District, designated in 1973. A majority of the 287 properties to be incorporated into the extension are residential rowhouses from the mid-to-late 19th century. Wide scale development of the area that began in the 1860s were of the Neo-Grec and Italianate architectural styles, while development from the 1880s saw increased Queen Anne, Romanesque Revival and Renaissance Revival architectural styles. The district also includes some apartment buildings dating to the early 20th century, as well as St. Augustine Roman Catholic Church and Seventh Day Adventist and Christian Scientist houses of worship. (read more…)

Park Slope Historic District Extension. Image: LPC

New Brooklyn historic district brings another 600 buildings bordering original Park Slope Historic District under Landmarks jurisdiction. On April 17, 2012, Landmarks unanimously approved the creation of the Park Slope Historic District Extension. The extension includes 600 buildings on the southwest border of the 1973-designated Park Slope Historic District. The new district is generally bounded by 7th Street to the north, 15th Street to the south, 8th Avenue to the east, and 7th Avenue to the west. It also includes buildings on 15th Street between Prospect Park West and 8th Avenue lining the northwest side of Bartel-Pritchard Square, as well as a group of buildings facing Prospect Park West between 9th and 10th Streets that were not part of the original Park Slope Historic District.

The extension features rowhouses and apartment buildings representing a variety of architectural styles. According to Landmarks, the earliest row of homes in the district was built between (read more…)

Plan reduced after commissioners and neighbors aggressively opposed proposed rooftop addition. On December 20, 2011, Landmarks approved Thomas Dolby and Andrew Frist’s proposal to build a one-story penthouse on top of a three-story limestone-clad townhouse at 627 3rd Street in Brooklyn’s Park Slope Historic District.

The project’s architect, Eric Rowland, presented the initial design at a hearing in November 2011. Dolby and Frist’s proposal included a 600 sq.ft. limestone-clad rooftop addition and modifications to the building’s rear facade. The addition would have been set back 20 feet and ranged in height from between nine and fourteen feet. Portions of the addition’s copper roof would have been visible from several vantages, including the corner of 3rd Street and Prospect Park West. The proposal also included replacing the rear-facade’s brick with glass, and building a rear deck.  (read more…)

Owner gets 2 approvals: 4-story cast-stone/brick building to replace existing garage; 1910 mansion to be expanded. The 1 Montgomery Place Association, the owner of two lots within the Park Slope Historic District, applied for permission to alter the existing 1910 neo-Federal-style mansion at 1 Montgomery Place and, immediately adjacent at 125 8th Avenue, to demolish a one-story garage and build a new four-story building.

BKSK Architects designed a cast-stone and brick four-story structure to replace the existing garage. The design included a caststone bay extending from the first to the second floor; brick cladding on the second and third floors; and the repetition of cast-stone cladding and a prominent grey cornice on the top story. Metal balconies would ornament the second and third stories. For 1 Montgomery Place, BKSK presented a proposal for a copper-topped, one-story addition on the roof and a new area-way, ADA-ramp access and landscaping along 8th Avenue.

At the initial hearing, Landmarks expressed concerns over the height and location of the rooftop addition at 1 Montgomery Place, commenting that it was too visible from adjacent streets. BKSK submitted a revised proposal that reduced the height by 80 ft. and increased the setback from the existing wall from 5’6″ to 13’4″. (read more…)