DESIGNATION REPORT American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Brooklyn Office, Shelter, and Garage Landmarks Preservation Designation Report Designation List 515 Commission ASPCA Brooklyn Office, LP-2637 Shelter, and Garage October 29, 2019

DESIGNATION REPORT American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Brooklyn Office, Shelter, and Garage LOCATION Borough of Brooklyn 233 Butler Street (aka 231-237 Butler Street) LANDMARK TYPE Individual SIGNIFICANCE Designed by Renwick, Aspinwall and Tucker, the ASPCA’s finest surviving structure in New York City and the horse drinking fountain in front of it constitute an elegant reminder of the early promotion of humane treatment of animals, and New York’s central role in the national anticruelty movement. Landmarks Preservation Designation Report Designation List 515 Commission ASPCA Brooklyn Office, LP-2637 Shelter, and Garage October 29, 2019

American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Annual Report for 1921 (New York: The Society, 1922), 21. LANDMARKS PRESERVATION COMMISSION COMMISSIONERS Lisa Kersavage, Executive Director Sarah Carroll, Chair Mark Silberman, General Counsel Frederick Bland, Vice Chair Timothy Frye, Director of Special Projects and Diana Chapin Strategic Planning Wellington Chen Kate Lemos McHale, Director of Research Michael Devonshire Cory Herrala, Director of Preservation Michael Goldblum John Gustafsson Anne Holford-Smith REPORT BY Everardo Jefferson Michael Caratzas, Research Department Jeanne Lutfy Adi Shamir-Baron EDITED BY Kate Lemos McHale PHOTOGRAPHS BY Sarah Moses, LPC Landmarks Preservation Designation Report Designation List 515 Commission ASPCA Brooklyn Office, LP-2637 Shelter, and Garage 3 of 32 October 29, 2019

American Society for the law. The Commission received support for the proposed designation from 14 people, including Prevention of Cruelty to Animals representatives of the property owner, New York Brooklyn Office, Shelter, and City Councilmember Brad Lander, the Gowanus Garage Landmarking Coalition, Historic Districts Council, 233 Butler Street (aka 231-237 Butler Street), Society for the Architecture of the City, New York Brooklyn Landmarks Conservancy, Municipal Art Society of New York, Park Slope Civic Council, Friends and Residents of Greater Gowanus, and four individuals. In addition, the Commission received 33 written submissions in support of the proposed designation. Designation List 515 LP-2637 Built: 1913, expanded 1922 Architect: Renwick, Aspinwall & Tucker Landmark Site: Borough of Brooklyn, Tax Map Block 405, Lot 51 in part and a portion of the Butler Street sidewalk in front of Lot 51, bounded by a line beginning at the northeast corner of said lot, continuing southerly along the eastern lot line and a line extending southerly to the northern curbline of Butler Street, westerly along the northern curbline of Butler Street to a point on a line extending southerly from the southwest corner of the building at 231-237 Butler Street, northerly along said line and the western building line of 231-237 Butler Street to the northern lot line, and easterly along the northern lot line to the point of beginning. Calendared: June 25, 2019 Public Hearing: September 24, 2019 On September 24, 2019, the Landmarks Preservation Commission held a public hearing on the proposed designation of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Brooklyn Office, Shelter, and Garage as a New York City Landmark and the proposed designation of the related Landmark Site (Item No. 5). The hearing was duly advertised in accordance with the provisions of the Landmarks Preservation Designation Report Designation List 515 Commission ASPCA Brooklyn Office, LP-2637 Shelter, and Garage 4 of 32 October 29, 2019

Summary Society’s seal, depicting a sword-bearing angel protecting a fallen horse, provided access to the new American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to second floor. The Brooklyn Citizen called th

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