On July 17, 1973,the enclosed boundaries was designated the Park Slope Historic District. The New York Landmarks Preservation Commission was adamant in its findings and stated:
"The Commission further finds that, among its important qualities, the Park Slope Historic District is one of the most beautifully situated residential neighborhoods in the City, that its history and deveopment is closely related to that of Prospect Park, that it is almost exclusively residential in character with minimal inroads by commerce, that it retains an aura of the past to an extent which is unusual in New York, that the wide sunny avenues and tree-lined streets, with houses of relatively uniform height punctuated by church spires, provide a living illustration of the 19th century characterization of Brooklyn as "a city of homes and churches," that the major deveopment of the District within a realtively brief span of some decades, from the Civil War period to World War 1, produced a special quality of homogenuity and reularity reflecting the desire of developers, builders and architects to achieve coherence and dignity in planning, that this development was a reflection of the social and cultural aspirations of its residents, that the houses, churches and other structures provide, in microcosm, a cross-section of the important trends in American architecture of the time, that the styles include principally: late Italianate, French Second Empire, neo-Grec, Victorian Gothic, Queen Anne and exceptional notable examples of Romanesque Revival houses, the finest in the City and among the most outstanding in the country; followed by the neo-Renaissance, neo-Classical, neo-Federal and neo-Georgian, representing the last great wave of development of the District after the turn-of-the-centruty; and finally, that because of its distinguished architecture and its special character as a carefully planned, homogeneous community, it is an outstanding Historic District within the City which continues to attract new residents."
