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Prospect Heights, Brooklyn

The Prospect Heights Historic District includes approximately 850 buildings, predominately single-family row houses and apartment buildings, constructed, for the most part, between the middle of the nineteenth century and the early twentieth century. The Prospect Heights neighborhood is located immediately north of Prospect Park and is bounded by Atlantic Avenue to the north, Eastern Parkway to the south, Flatbush Avenue to the west, and Washington Avenue to the east.

The area was occupied by the Lenape Indians at the time of European contact. During the eighteenth century the land came into possession of a number of different owners, several of whom were slave owners. It was still predominately farm and wood lands until the middle of the nineteenth century.

The two most important factors in the growth of Prospect Heights were transportation improvements and the development of Prospect Park. These transportation improvements included new links between Prospect Heights and the ferries along Brooklyn’s waterfront. Construction began on Prospect Park in 1866 and the park opened to the public in 1871, although it was not yet complete. The land in the southeast part of the district was taken for the park but was not included in the final design and after years of litigation was sold and developed starting in the 1890s.

The earliest houses were built in the Italianate style of architecture, popular from about 1840 to 1870. The two frame houses at 578 and 580 Carlton Avenue appear to date from the 1850s and are the oldest buildings in the district. They still retain some of their Italianate style details. Row houses began to be designed in two variations of the Italianate style, the Anglo-Italianate, popular from about 1865 to 1870 and the Italianate style with Second Empire elements, popular from 1870 to 1885. By the mid-1870s the simpler neo-Grec style supplanted the rounded, ornate Italianate, Anglo-Italianate and Second Empire styles. Prospect Heights has houses dating from the second half of the 1870s and the 1880s designed in the neo-Grec style by prominent Brooklyn architects such as the Parfitt Brothers, John H. Doherty, Nelson Whipple, Jeremiah J. Gilligan, Eastman & Daus and Marshall J. Morrill.

The Romanesque Revival style was very popular in Prospect Heights and there are many excellent examples dating from the late 1880s and 1890s. Classically-inspired styles gained in popularity in America as a reaction to the picturesque Romanesque Revival and Queen Anne styles. The restrained Renaissance Revival style, popular from about 1880 to 1910, is also well represented in the district. Many of the residences designed by Benjamin Driesler, Axel Hedman and Magnus Dahlander, major Brooklyn architects of the time, combined elements from both the Romanesque Revival and Renaissance Revival styles.

The multiple dwellings built in Prospect Heights during the nineteenth century were designed in all of the popular residential styles, including the Italianate, neo-Grec, Queen Anne, Romanesque and Renaissance Revivals styles. These buildings were typically four-story walk-ups. The earliest multiple dwellings in the district appear on Vanderbilt Avenue, in the early 1870s. Vanderbilt Avenue and Flatbush Avenue, two of the major thoroughfares in Brooklyn, are characterized by multi-family residential buildings with ground floor commercial spaces in Prospect Heights.

The Prospect Heights Historic District has some important institutional buildings, including the former Public School 9 Annex, the Duryea Presbyterian Church and the former Mount Prospect Laboratory. Although the district was substantially built prior to 1910, it does have some fine examples of styles popular in the early twentieth century including the Colonial Revival, neo-classical, Arts and Crafts, Art Deco and Moderne styles.

The Prospect Heights Historic District remains among Brooklyn’s most architecturally distinguished areas, retaining some of the borough’s most beautiful and well-preserved residential streets, and featuring a broad array of outstanding residential architecture in popular styles of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. The area continues to retain its cohesion due to its tree-lined streets, scale, predominant residential character and its architectural integrity.

The Prospect Heights Historic District includes approximately 850 buildings, predominately single-family row houses and apartment houses, constructed, for the most part, between the middle of the nineteenth century and the early twentieth century. The Prospect Heights neighborhood is located immediately north of Prospect Park and is bounded by Atlantic Avenue to the north, Eastern Parkway to the south, Flatbush Avenue to the west, and Washington Avenue to the east.1 The name Prospect Heights appears to have come into popular use in the 1880s but was often used to refer to the area west of Flatbush

CCBC - TU Associate to Master’s in Nursing program graduates six
TU awards two ATM students full scholarships for their graduate studies

Pictured are: (L to R) Christine McGovern, Melanie Transparenti, Amy Robertson, Rickeena Free, Nicol Partida and Lauren Devlin. (Photo credit - CCBC media)

Baltimore County, Md. – The Community College of Baltimore County – Towson University Associate to Master’s in Nursing (ATM) program had six students receive their Associate of Science in Nursing degree this June. This allows them to take the NCLEX exam and become registered nurses.

All six CCBC graduates are continuing on to Towson University this summer to begin the Master’s portion of the program.

The 2011 CCBC ATM graduates are: Lauren Devlin of Crofton, Md., Rickeena Free of Dundalk, Md., Christine McGovern of Perry Hall, Md., Nicol Partida of Reisterstown, Md., Amy Robertson of Charleston, W.Va. and Melanie Transparenti of Towson Md.

Towson University awarded Christine McGovern and Melanie Transparenti scholarships valued between $7,000 and $8,000 (depending on the number of credits taken) to cover the cost of their graduate program tuition.

The CCBC-TU ATM program is an innovative full-time, year-round three year program for those who already have an earned bachelor’s degree. This program fast-tracks students through the ADN program at CCBC so that they are eligible to take the NCLEX and become registered nurses. Students then continue on to TU to complete a Bachelor’s and Master’s in Nursing. The aim of CCBC-TU ATM program is to prepare Master’s prepared nurses for careers as nurse educators to ease the nursing shortage.

The CCBC ATM program is offered on the Essex campus (7201 Rossville Boulevard) only. It is a selective admissions program; the deadline for admission is August 15 every year. Approximately 16 students are accepted each year and classes begin in the spring semester. Information sessions about the ATM program are held at both CCBC Essex and Towson University throughout the year.

For additional information about the CCBC – TU ATM in Nursing program, contact the CCBC nursing case manager at 443-840-2100 or gjones@ccbcmd.edu.