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BROOKLYN IAIiyINPEWS Local News and Features Home Improvement World of Animals Classified With the addition of buildings, New York now has the nation's largest listing of places eligible for federal benefits. 170 Places in City There are now 754 places in the state" on the National Register, with 170 of them in the city. The Litchfield Inside the park at Prospect Park West and Fifth has been used as Brooklyn" park headquarters since 1892. It was built between 1854 and 1857 for railroad pioneer Edwin C. Litchfield from plans provided by Alexander Jackson Davis, one of the foremost American designers of Italian style villas.

The staff of the state of Parks and Recreation. Among the 17 other historic sites placed on the Register are: Fraunces Tavern block, bounded by Pearl, Water, and Broad Sts. and Coenties Slip in Manhattan. It is one of the few surviving examples of the city's 18th century waterfront scenes. The noted tavern where Washington bade farewell to his troops in 1783, is owned by the Sons of the Revolution.

The Municipal Ferry Pier at the Battery, cited as the last remaining terminal for East River ferries. Built in 1909. The John Bpwne House at 37-01 Bowne Flushing. Begun in 1661, it is the oldest surviving dwelling in Queens and is now maintained as an historic museum site. Fort Schuyler at the tip of the Throgg's Neck in the Bronx.

Now the home of the State University of New York Maritime College, the pentagon-shaped granite fort was completed in 1845 to protect the Hell's Gate passageway from enemy ships, a threat that has never materialized. The Edward Mooney House at 18 Bowery. Built between 1785 and 1789, it is the oldest surviving townhouse in the city. It now houses an OTB office. The DeVinne Press Building at 393-99 Lafayette St.

at the corner of 14th St. Now owned by a private paper company, the seven-story brick structure in an- example of the' commercial Style evolved in Chicago. It was built in 1885. Colonnade (LaGran8-434 Laeayette St. Dating from the early Litchfield Villa is regarded as one of his outstanding efforts.

Through astute financial management of newly developing Midwestern railroads, Litchfield made a fortune. Just after the Civil War, he used some of this money to develop the Park Slope area. His own home and surrounding grounds, laid out by Calver Vaux, represent a concerted attempt to maintian a picturesque setting in the center of urban expansion. The villa became part of Prospect Park in 1869. Neo-Classlcal Style The majestic Brooklyn Museum on Eastern Parkway was cited as significant architecturally as an example of the American neo-classical style, and historically as a major cultural institution.

It traces its roots to the 1823 Apprentices Library, and 1843 Brooklyn Institute. The opening of the Brooklyn Bridge brought to Brooklyn a new group of merchants and professional people with heightened cultural aspira- -tions. This led in 1890 to the founding of the Brooklyn Insitiute of Arts and Sciences. Its original architects, McKim, Mead and White, had grandoise schemes for the structure which were never completely carried out. The existing building's north, or street side, is the only part built from the original plan.

In the 1920s and '30s the Institute redirected its efforts toward a museum specializing in fine arts. Borough 's Cultural Imago It continued to present a variety of educational, theatrical and musical programs along with outstanding, collections. Its great columned exterior with statues by Daniel Chester French still form an important part of the borough's? physical and cultural identity. Those two listings and the other 17 were planed on the register through the work of the city's Landmarks Preservation Commission and the preservation 'Sunday, June 11, 1978 By ROBERT KAPPSTATTER rVnf7HEN YOU'RE OLD and gray, jt nice to 'cnow yu nave a lJ relative like Uncle Sam in case you need some help. That's the case for 19 historic sites in the city, including two well-known landmarks in Brooklyn.

1 They've just been awarded a listing on the National Register of Historic Places. This entitles them not only to a new title, but to grants in aid, tax benefits and other relief designed to keep them alive and well. Among the recipents are Brooklyn's Litchfield Villa in Prospect Park and the Brooklyn Museum. The 19 new additions were officially recognized June 2 in ceremonies at the Brooklyn Museum. yX piBIBll in; iTiiii Litchfield Billa (above) also got some Youngster (right) reads title card at museum's Hasidic art show, last year.

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The New York Cancer Hospital (Towers Nursing Home) at two W. 106th St. Financed by Jbhn Jacob Astor and completed in 1886, it was the first in this country and the second in the world to specialize in the care of cancer patients. tf i 1 'J ,1 1 if lf 4 1 i'Ulft 3 WiKi I 3. JW 8 lni.mn.1 String quintet (above) fromhIS 88 practices musical creativity ot I.