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75th Avenue–61st Street Historic District is a national
historic district A historic district or heritage district is a section of a city which contains older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons. In some countries or jurisdictions, historic districts receive legal protection from c ...
in
Glendale, Queens Glendale is a neighborhood in the west-central portion of the New York City borough of Queens. It is bounded by Forest Hills to the east, Ridgewood to the west, Woodhaven to the south, and Middle Village to the north. Glendale was built on a ...
,
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. It includes 183 contributing buildings built between 1910 and 1925. They consist mainly of two story brick
row house In architecture and city planning, a terrace or terraced house (British English, UK) or townhouse (American English, US) is a form of medium-density housing that originated in Europe in the 16th century, whereby a row of attached dwellings party ...
s with one
apartment An apartment (American English), or flat (British English, Indian English, South African English), is a self-contained housing unit (a type of residential real estate) that occupies part of a building, generally on a single story. There are ma ...
per floor. Building features include round and box front dwellings, cast stone detailing, brownstone stoops, pressed metal cornices, and covered porches. ''See also:'' It includes the following addresses: * 60th Lane **75-02 to 75-50 **75-01 to 75-49 *61st St **72-28 to 72-72 **72-31 to 72-69 **75-02 to 75-50 **75-01 to 75-49 *62nd St **75-02 to 75-34 **75-15 to 75-29 **74-18 to 74-46 The district was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
in 1983.


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Glendale, Queens Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Queens, New York {{QueensNY-NRHP-stub