Rochelle Park–Rochelle Heights Historic District
The Rochelle Park–Rochelle Heights Historic District is a historic residential district located in the city of New Rochelle in Westchester, New York. The district is historically and architecturally significant as an intact and distinctive example of residential park development at the turn of the Twentieth Century.[3] It includes the historic Rochelle Park development, and the later Rochelle Heights subdivision. Within the district are 555 contributing properties, including 513 buildings, 38 structures, and 4 sites. Only 24 buildings and 1 site separately identified within its area are non-contributing.[4] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) on July 6, 2005.[1]
Location
The Circle, The Boulevard, The Serpentine, Hamilton Ave. and others, New Rochelle, New York
1885
Barrett, Nathan F.; Mann, MacNeille & Lindeberg [2]
Late Victorian, Late 19th And 20th Century Revivals
11942.001464
July 06, 2005
May 8, 2005
The two neighborhoods, combined into one historic district in 1986, reflect the history of suburban design from 1885 when the phenomenon first took hold in Westchester, the first large suburban area in the world to develop, to the 1920s when the automobile and Progressive Era ideas of planning and architecture were coming into favor. The landscape and house architecture of the area remains remarkably intact and provide valuable information about the range of innovative planning principles that were applied there.[5]