DESIGNATION REPORT Gowanus Canal Flushing Tunnel Pumping Station and Gate House Landmarks Preservation Designation Report Designation List 515 Commission Gowanus Canal Flushing Tunnel LP-2638 Pumping Station and Gate House October 29, 2019

DESIGNATION REPORT Gowanus Canal Flushing Tunnel Pumping Station and Gate House LOCATION Borough of Brooklyn 201 Douglass Street (aka 196 Butler Street) LANDMARK TYPE Individual SIGNIFICANCE Built in the early 20th century to house the mechanical systems needed to flush the Gowanus Canal, the Gowanus Canal Flushing Tunnel Pumping Station and Gate House represent one of the most important infrastructure projects in Brooklyn. Landmarks Preservation Designation Report Designation List 515 Commission Gowanus Canal Flushing Tunnel LP-2638 Pumping Station and Gate House October 29, 2019

Gowanus Canal Flushing Tunnel Pumping Station and Gate House Sarah Moses, 2019 LANDMARKS PRESERVATION COMMISSION COMMISSIONERS Lisa Kersavage, Executive Director Sarah Carroll, Chair Mark Silberman, 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 Scott Herrala, Director of Preservation Michael Goldblum John Gustafsson Anne Holford-Smith REPORT BY Everardo Jefferson Marianne S. Percival, Research Department Jeanne Lutfy Adi Shamir-Baron EDITED BY Kate Lemos McHale PHOTOGRAPHS BY Sarah Moses and Marianne Percival Landmarks Preservation Designation Report Designation List 515 Commission Gowanus Canal Flushing Tunnel LP-2638 Pumping Station and Gate House 3 of 23 October 29, 2019

Gowanus Canal Flushing Tunnel Commission held a public hearing on the proposed designation of the Gowanus Canal Flushing Tunnel Pumping Station and Gate House Pumping Station and Gate House as a New York City 201 Douglass Street (aka 196 Butler Street), Landmark and the proposed designation of the Brooklyn related Landmark Site (Item No.4). The hearing was duly advertised in accordance with the provisions of the law. The Commission received support for the proposed designation from 14 people including representatives of the owner, the Department of Designation List 515 Environmental Protection; Councilmember Brad LP-2638 Lander; Gowanus Landmarking Coalition; Historic Districts Council; New York Landmarks Conservancy; Built: 1909-11 The Municipal Art Society of New York; Society for Architect: Arthur L. L. Martin; Edwin J. Fort, Chief the Architecture of the City; Friends and Residents of Engineer, Brooklyn Bureau of Sewers Greater Gowanus (FROGG); and Park Slope Civic Council. No one spoke in opposition. In addition, the Landmark Site: Borough of Brooklyn, Tax Map agency received 33 e-mails in support of designation Block 411, Lot 14 in part beginning at the northwest for the Gowanus Canal Flushing Tunnel Pumping corner of the Gowanus Canal, running southerly Station and Gate House. along the west side of the Gowanus Canal to the southern property line of lot 14, westerly along the southern property line of lot 14 to the western property line of lot 14, northerly along the western property line of lot 14 to a point on a line extending westerly from the northern building line of the Gowanus Canal Flushing Tunnel Pumping Station, easterly along said line and the northern building line of the Gowanus Canal Flushing Tunnel Pumping Station continuing to a point on a line parallel to and 13 feet distant from the eastern building line of the Gowanus Canal Flushing Tunnel Pumping Station; southerly along said line to a point on a line extending westerly from the northwest corner of the Gowanus Canal, easterly along said line to the point of beginning. Calendared: June 25, 2019 Public Hearing: September 24, 2019 On September 24, 2019, the Landmarks Preservation Landmarks Preservation Designation Report Designation List 515 Commission Gowanus Canal Flushing Tunnel LP-2638 Pumping Station and Gate House 4

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