Litchfield Villa | |
New York City Landmark No. 0153
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.jpg) West side | |
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| Location | Prospect Park W. and 5th St. Brooklyn, New York City |
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| Coordinates | 40°40′1″N 73°58′26″W / 40.66694°N 73.97389°W |
| Built | 1854-1857 |
| Architect | A. J. Davis |
| Architectural style | Italianate |
| NRHP reference No. | 77000946 |
| NYCL No. | 0153 |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | September 14, 1977[1] |
| Designated NYCL | March 15, 1966 |
Litchfield Villa, or Grace Hill, is an Italianate mansion built in 1854–1857 on a large private estate now located in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, New York City.[2] It is located on Prospect Park West at 5th Street. The villa was designed by Alexander Jackson Davis, America's leading architect of the fashionable Italianate style, for railroad and real estate developer Edwin Clark Litchfield.[3]
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- ^ Gray, Christopher (March 12, 1989). "STREETSCAPES: The Litchfield Villa; Back to the Past for a Landmark in Prospect Park". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved January 31, 2019.
- ^ Peck, Amelia (1992) Alexander Jackson Davis, American Architect, 1803-1892 p.94