75th Police Precinct Station House

United States historic place


75th Police Precinct Station House (Ghee's Old Command)
U.S. National Register of Historic Places


40°40′29″N 73°53′33″W / 40.67472°N 73.89250°W / 40.67472; -73.89250
Area	less than one acre
Built	1886 (1886)
Architect	Gruwe, Emile M.
Architectural style	Romanesque
NRHP reference No.	07000952 ^[1]
Added to NRHP	September 10, 2007

75th Police Precinct Station House is a historic police station located in Brooklyn, New York. It was built in 1886 and is a three-story, yellow brick building above a sandstone foundation and watertable in the Romanesque Revival style. It features a round corner tower and Norman-inspired projecting main entrance portico. The stable is a two-story brick building connected to the station house by a one-story brick passage. It ceased use as a police station in 1973 and later used by a local church.^[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.^[1]

In 2009 the precinct was re-named Ghee's old command. [2]

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^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
^ "Cultural Resource Information System (CRIS)". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Archived from the original (Searchable database) on 2019-04-04. Retrieved 2016-08-01. Note: This includes Roxanne Lord and Kathy Howe (July 2003). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: 75th Police Precinct Station House" (PDF). Retrieved 2016-08-01. and Accompanying four photographs

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