LPC Grants 5 Designations, Including Hubbard House

Photo of the Hubbard House via Brooklyn Genealogy. L-R: 275 Madison Ave, Elsworth House, NYPL 125th St and George Bruce Branch.

Yesterday the Landmarks Preservation Commission met to vote on new designations. All in all, five were granted Landmark status (PDF): 275 Madison Avenue (an Art Deco Skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan), the Hubbard House (a rare Dutch-American Farmhouse in Brooklyn’s Gravesend section), the Elsworth House (an Oysterman’s Italianate Residence on Staten Island) and the New York Public Library’s Georgian Revival-Style George Bruce Branch and Italian Renaissance Palazzo-Style 125th Street Branch in Harlem.

The Commission also held public hearings to discuss future designations, which include the Lamartine Place Historic District in Chelsea that consists of a dozen houses built between 1846 and 1847 that were associated with the Underground Railroad and the Civil War Draft Riots of 1863. And the Fillmore Place Historic District in Williamsburg is still on the table for a designation as well.