{"nrhp_refnum":"01000292","name":"Hamlet of Warrensburgh Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly along Schroon River and the Camp Echo Lake","address_restricted":false,"city":"Warrenburgh","county":"Warren County","state":"NY","lat":43.49297468800003,"lon":-73.78737391013647,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2001-05-14","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Industry","Entertainment/Recreation","Commerce","Architecture","Education","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district straddling the Schroon River in the hamlet of Warrensburgh, Warren County, New York, covering the hamlet's commercial, industrial and residential core plus Camp Echo Lake, with a small discontiguous portion on Main Street. It contains 428 resources dating mainly from the 19th and early 20th centuries.","why_significant":"The district is described as a cohesive and intact collection of 19th and 20th century resources tied to five themes: transportation, social/civic/educational/religious development, community planning, industry and manufacturing, and recreation and tourism. The river divides the commercial and high-style residential north side from the industrial and worker-housing south side. It also incorporates the earlier-listed Warrensburgh Mills Historic District and the Merrill MaGee House.","narrative":"Warrensburgh's historic core spreads across both banks of the Schroon River in Warren County, New York. The district includes 428 buildings and structures, most of them homes, along with stores, mills, churches, cemeteries and Camp Echo Lake. The river marks a clear divide. North of it, Main, Hudson and Elm streets hold the commercial blocks and the larger, more stylish houses, including Greek Revival, Italianate, Queen Anne and Bungalow examples, with a stone Woodward Block and a 1927 neoclassical bank among the commercial landmarks. South of the river, River Street was the industrial center, with a gristmill dating from 1824, shirt factories, a feed building and a coal pocket, alongside modest wood-frame workers' houses. A small group of buildings on Main Street lies apart because of a steep hillside. The area was recognized because it preserves, in largely intact form, the way industry, commerce, religion, education and recreation shaped this hamlet through the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival, Queen Anne, Bungalow/Craftsman, and mid-19th to 20th century vernacular","criteria":[],"status_note":"Of 428 resources, 351 contributing buildings, 5 structures and 3 sites contribute and 69 are non-contributing; many buildings remain in residential, commercial and other use, some with later alterations.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:51.504389-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/01000292.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01000292/f61f80cfd5-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01000292/f61f80cfd5-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"Doug Kerr from Upstate New York","credit_html":"Doug Kerr from Upstate New York, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Floyd_Bennett_Park_Bandstand_Aug_10.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75315419","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamlet_of_Warrensburgh_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5645474"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/warren-county/hamlet-of-warrensburgh-historic-district-01000292/"}