Boerum Hill 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 Boerum Hill, Brooklyn,

New York, New York New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the most densely populated major city in the Uni ...

. It originally consisted of 238 contributing residential

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s and a few commercial buildings built between 1845 and 1890. Most are three bay, three story brick buildings with projecting stoops in a

Greek Revival The Greek Revival was an architectural movement which began in the middle of the 18th century but which particularly flourished in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in northern Europe and the United States and Canada, but ...

Italianate The Italianate style was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. Like Palladianism and Neoclassicism, the Italianate style drew its inspiration from the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century Italian R ...

style. ''See also:'' It was listed on the

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in 1983. Its area was approximately doubled in 2018.Peak preservation: LPC approves extension of Boerum Hill Historic District ''Brooklyn Paper'' June 27, 2018.

accessed Oct 1, 2018

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National Historic District summary
at Trust for Architectural Easements
National Register of Historic Places Historic District Designation Report
at Trust for Architectural Easements
District mapDistrict map, as expanded in 2018
Italianate architecture in New York City Greek Revival architecture in New York City Boerum Hill Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Brooklyn New York City designated historic districts New York City Designated Landmarks in Brooklyn {{Brooklyn-NRHP-stub