{"nrhp_refnum":"06000335","name":"Nelson Avenue-Fort Hill Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly along Nelson Ave., John St., Diven St., Constant St., Orchard St., Pauling St., and Decatur Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Peekskill","county":"Westchester County","state":"NY","lat":41.29772760350005,"lon":-73.92160525887721,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2006-05-04","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential historic district in Peekskill, Westchester County, New York, covering Nelson Avenue and surrounding streets (Diven, Paulding, Orchard, John, Constant and Decatur) near the city's commercial core. It holds 199 contributing and 14 noncontributing resources, mostly houses from the mid-19th to early 20th century.","why_significant":"The district shows how a residential neighborhood grew beside Peekskill's commercial core, with housing that reflects the city's economic growth and diversity. It preserves a range of mid-19th to early 20th century house styles, including Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, Second Empire, Queen Anne and the regional Hudson River Bracketed. It was also home to local industrialists, builders, merchants and politicians. The form certifies it as locally significant.","narrative":"Nelson Avenue and the surrounding streets of Fort Hill form a residential neighborhood just north of Peekskill's commercial core on the Hudson River. Maps from 1800 and 1837 show no roads here, and by 1852 fewer than ten houses stood in the area. Growth followed Peekskill's Civil War-era boom, and estates were subdivided in the 1880s and 1890s as Nelson and Decatur avenues were extended north. The district now holds 199 contributing resources, mainly single and multiple dwellings. They include Greek Revival houses from the 1840s and c. 1850, Gothic Revival and Hudson River Bracketed homes, Second Empire houses such as the Charles Lamos house at 935 Orchard Street, and Queen Anne houses from around 1888 and 1895. Carriage houses and barns survive behind several of them. The neighborhood was home to foundry owners, builders, merchants and officials, and its large, well-spaced houses reflect the city's prosperity and changing economic makeup.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Builders named include Peter McGovern (910 Paulding), Charles Lamos (935 Orchard) and Eugene B. Hill (940 Orchard)","architectural_style":"Mid-19th century, late 19th century and early 20th century styles, including Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, Italianate, Second Empire, Queen Anne and Hudson River Bracketed","criteria":[],"status_note":"Houses are still used as dwellings, some converted to multiple dwellings; several early outbuildings such as carriage houses and barns survive.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:53.269671-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/06000335.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06000335/4396a35e5f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06000335/4396a35e5f-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Daniel Case","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Houses_in_Fort_Hill_neighborhood,_Peekskill,_NY.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Daniel Case</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Houses_in_Fort_Hill_neighborhood,_Peekskill,_NY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75323119","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Avenue%E2%80%93Fort_Hill_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6990364"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/westchester-county/nelson-avenue-fort-hill-historic-district-06000335/"}