68th Avenue–64th Place Historic District is a national
historic district
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in
Ridgewood, Queens,
New York
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. It includes 46 contributing buildings built between 1909 and 1913. They consist mainly of two story brick
row house
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s with one
apartment
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per floor. Buildings feature alternating yellow, amber, brown and burnt orange speckled brick and cast stone detailing in the
Romanesque Revival style.
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It was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
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Romanesque Revival architecture in New York City
Ridgewood, Queens
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Queens, New York
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