{"nrhp_refnum":"03000252","name":"Rye Town Park-Bathing Complex and Oakland Beach","other_names":[],"category":"site","location":{"address":"Forrest Ave., bet. Rye Beach and Dearborn Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Rye","county":"Westchester County","state":"NY","lat":40.960000000000036,"lon":-73.68077681699998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2003-04-18","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development","Landscape Architecture","Entertainment/Recreation"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 28.1-acre public seaside park with a Spanish Mission Style bathing complex and the adjoining 34.5-acre Oakland Beach on Long Island Sound in Rye, Westchester County, New York. It was designed in 1909 by architects Upjohn & Conable and landscape architects Brinley & Holbrook.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the park as a cohesive early 20th-century recreation facility. Its Mission-style bathing pavilion, shelters and restaurant sit within a naturalistic landscape sensitive to the site's topography. The park is also placed within the regional planning and park reform movement of the early 1900s in Westchester County.","narrative":"Rye Town Park is a 28.1-acre public park on the shore of Long Island Sound in Rye, New York, together with the 34.5-acre Oakland Beach. It was designed in 1909 by architects Upjohn & Conable and landscape architects Brinley & Holbrook. A rubble stone wall encloses the north, south and west sides, and a stone retaining wall holds the park about 15 feet above the beach. Within the grounds, meandering paths, lawns, tree clusters, a small lake, a stone arched bridge and a terrace overlook follow the natural topography. The Spanish Mission Style buildings form the core: a bathing pavilion with two four-story towers and red clay tile roofs, two colonnaded shelters, and a 1910 restaurant. Six of the 17 buildings and structures are counted as contributing. Some planned features, such as the Music Hall and Casino, appear never to have been built. The park is valued as a cohesive recreation complex of the early twentieth century and as an example of planned park design.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Upjohn & Conable (architects); Brinley & Holbrook (landscape architects); J. F. Musselman (architect of the 1925 Women's Bath House)","architectural_style":"Late 19th & 20th Century Revivals: Mission/Spanish Colonial Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Still used as a park; the original rear bathhouses were demolished between 1919 and 1930 and the area is now a paved parking lot.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:52.7382-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/03000252.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03000252/9d5bc3b4a0-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03000252/9d5bc3b4a0-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Jim.henderson","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rye_Beach_house_jeh.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jim.henderson</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rye_Beach_house_jeh.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75323199","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rye_Town_Park-Bathing_Complex_and_Oakland_Beach","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7384986"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/westchester-county/rye-town-park-bathing-complex-and-oakland-beach-03000252/"}