Dumbo Historic District Designation Report
January 4th, 2008
Shortly after the designation of the Dumbo Historic District, the LPC posted the Dumbo Designation Report (warning: large 7.5MB pdf file). The report is full of historic information on the 91 historically significant buildings that make up the Dumbo Historic District. The report includes essays and building profiles:
The DUMBO Historic District, consisting of approximately 91 historically significant buildings,contains one of the finest collections of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century industrial architecture in New York City. These buildings illustrate the history of industrial design beginning with pre-Civil War brick counting houses, extending through the second half of the nineteenth century and first years of the twentieth century, when most factories were built of slow-burning mill construction, with massive wooden columns and beams and brick facades, into the early twentieth century, when new technologies, including the use of steel and, most prominently, reinforced concrete, became popular for factory construction.
The 239 page report describes each of the 91 buildings with photos of many of them at towards the end of the report. It’s dense with information, but an interesting read if you’re looking for a historical perspective of a particular building in Dumbo.
{PDF map of Dumbo Historic District boundary}
January 5th, 2008 at 9:34 am
Why didn’t they throw in the Eskimo Pie factory over by Farragut?
January 5th, 2008 at 9:39 pm
91 Buildings? Are you kidding? What a joke!
July 15th, 2009 at 3:52 pm
[...] Dumbo Historic Report Designation Report notes that the architect as Henry S. Kissam and the original owner as Hanan & Son, a show [...]
September 23rd, 2009 at 11:56 pm
91 Buildings? Are you kidding? What a joke!
December 17th, 2009 at 10:23 am
[...] reminded us about our tour there. The 37 Bridge development in Dumbo (the building is part of the Dumbo Historic District) developed by Baruch Singer, is putting in $30 million to create “45 one- to three-bedroom [...]
January 7th, 2010 at 1:00 am
[...] address is part of the Dumbo Historic District, a landmarked area that requires approval by LPC and the Community Board 2 before anything is built there. The lot is [...]
February 3rd, 2010 at 1:04 pm
[...] us an email about the entrance to the 202 Plymouth Street building, which is located within the Dumbo Historic District and features rail tracks entering the building. Walked down Plymouth St btwn Jay & Bridge the [...]
April 22nd, 2011 at 7:02 am
[...] building was originally built in 1882 and according to the Dumbo Landmark Designation report, Alexander S. Kirkman owned several buildings on the block and ran the Kirkman & Son business [...]
July 25th, 2011 at 11:10 am
[...] residents of Dumbo, Brooklyn, breathed a sigh of relief in 2007 when their neighborhood, too, finally won its historic designation. With landmarking, the neighborhoods’ buildings would be protected by the city and all changes to [...]
July 25th, 2011 at 4:39 pm
[...] Landmarks Preservation Commission designates the districts but they do not pay for the signs. The Dumbo neighborhood won its historic desigation in January 2008. However, three and a half years later, Dumbo still does not have these [...]
February 11th, 2013 at 4:29 pm
[...] In a nod to Dumbo’s history, the bar is named Olympia, which was a name given to the waterfront community east of the original ferry landing at the foot of what is now Fulton Landing in the late 1700s (ref: see prior post Dumbo, the Historic District With the Modern Name and page 8, from the Dumbo Historic District LPC designation report.) [...]