Italianate
Raised stoops, decorated doorways and bracketed cornices.
The early brick and stone rows ↗HUNTERS POINT HISTORIC DISTRICT
Architecture.
Look for the details that set each row apart—from Italianate stoops to mansard roofs and Queen Anne bays.
- Historic buildings
- 47
- Building groups
- 12
- Recorded construction
- 1870s–1890
A QUICK VISUAL GUIDE
Start with the silhouette.
The entrance, projecting windows and roofline help you tell the styles apart.
Second Empire
A steep mansard roof with dormer windows in the upper story.
The mansard-roof pair ↗Queen Anne
Angular bays in the apartment houses; gables in the wood-house group.
The bay-fronted apartment houses ↗Romanesque Revival
A modified treatment with shallow bow fronts, terra-cotta inserts and classical cornices.
The five-house 23rd Street row ↗Styles and features from LPC’s 1968 report; illustrations are schematic. Also look for Neo-Grec cornice details at 21-22–21-32. LPC assigned no named style to the frame house at 21-34. Explore the glossary ↗
5 GROUPS · 23 BUILDINGS
North side of 45th Avenue
Brick and stone Italianate rows lead east to the mansard-roof pair. Compare the raised entrances, cornices and changing roofline.
GROUP 01 · 1871–72
Italianate doorways and cornices
21-09–21-17 45th Avenue
5 buildings · Brick and stucco
Explore this group ↗GROUP 02 · 1871–72
The north-side stone row
21-21–21-29 45th Avenue
5 buildings · Westchester stone
Explore this group ↗GROUP 03 · Early 1870s
Italianate entrances along the row
21-31–21-39 45th Avenue
5 buildings · Brick and stucco
Explore this group ↗
GROUP 04 · 1870s
Simplified Italianate in brick
21-41–21-51 45th Avenue
6 buildings · Brick
Explore this group ↗GROUP 05 · 1880s
The mansard-roof pair
21-53–21-55 45th Avenue
2 buildings · Brick and slate mansards
Explore this group ↗1 GROUP · 5 BUILDINGS
Around the corner on 23rd Street
Five bow-fronted houses turn the district onto 23rd Street. Look for terra-cotta inserts, classical cornices and the corner building’s metal bay.
GROUP 06 · 1887
Bow fronts on 23rd Street
44-70–44-78 23rd Street
5 buildings · Terra-cotta and metal details
Explore this group ↗6 GROUPS · 19 BUILDINGS
South side of 45th Avenue
The most varied side of the avenue: Queen Anne bays, gabled wood houses, Neo-Grec cornice details and a stone row facing its counterpart across the street.
GROUP 07 · 1889
The yellow-brick apartment house
21-48 45th Avenue
1 building · Yellow brick
Explore this group ↗
GROUP 08 · 1889
Queen Anne bays in brick and stone
21-42–21-46 45th Avenue
3 buildings · Brick, stone and sheet metal
Explore this group ↗GROUP 09 · 1890
Gabled wood houses
21-36–21-40 45th Avenue
3 buildings · Wood construction
Explore this group ↗GROUP 10 · 1887
Timber and clapboard details
21-34 45th Avenue
1 building · Timber, clapboard and brick basement
Explore this group ↗GROUP 11 · 1887
Neo-Grec cornices and stoop ironwork
21-22–21-32 45th Avenue
6 buildings · Brick and wood cornices
Explore this group ↗GROUP 12 · 1871–72
The south-side stone row
21-12–21-20 45th Avenue
5 buildings · Westchester stone
Explore this group ↗All 47 buildings in LPC’s twelve inventory groups. Dates and details reflect the 1968 report; drawings are schematic studies. These profiles are historical research, not current listings.
Look more closely
Know the architectural details.
Identify cornices, stoops, bays, mansards and historic materials—and use the right questions when viewing a Hunters Point house.
Caring for historic materials.
Plan repairs to historic windows, masonry, stoops, ironwork and roofs, with guidance from LPC and the National Park Service.
Walk the historic district.
An eight-stop sidewalk walk along Hunters Point’s historic rows, with addresses, architectural details and the official district map.
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