3016 Webster Ave., New York, New York. County/parish: Bronx.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places October 29, 1982. NRIS 82001091.
2 contributing buildings.
52nd Police Precinct Station is a historic police station located in the Norwood section of the Bronx, New York City. It was built 1904–1906 and is a three-story, red brick structure approximately 50 feet by 80 feet in size. It is in the style of a Tuscan villa. It features a 21-foot square clock tower with large polychrome terracotta clock faces on three sides. Originally known as the 41st precinct, it was redesignated as the 52nd in the 1929 city-wide precinct renumbering.
The station was built in response to an increasing need for police protection after the area was annexed to New York City in 1898 and the population began to increase.
In 1921, the NYPD estimated the value of the building to be $125,000 (equivalent to $1,700,000 in 2024), and the 90-by-170-foot (27 m × 52 m) lot to be $15,000 (equivalent to $210,000 in 2024).
It was designated a New York City Landmark in 1974 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. The architects were Stoughton & Stoughton of Mount Vernon, New York.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75316445