{"nrhp_refnum":"09001087","name":"Jewish Center of Lake Huntington","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"13 Co. Rd. 116","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lake Huntington","county":"Sullivan County","state":"NY","lat":41.683881023000026,"lon":-74.99466032199996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2009-12-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Social History","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick and wood-frame building at 13 CR 116 in the hamlet of Lake Huntington, town of Cochecton, Sullivan County, New York. William Henry built it in 1896 as an auto showroom and garage, and it was converted to a synagogue in 1936.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is an intact, representative example of the vernacular synagogues built by Orthodox Jewish congregations in the Catskills in the early twentieth century. It is also tied to the growth of the Jewish community in the Lake Huntington resort hamlet. It served as the center of religious and social life for its congregation for several decades.","narrative":"Originally an auto showroom and tire garage built in 1896 by German immigrant William Henry, this two-story building in Lake Huntington, Sullivan County, became a synagogue in 1936. Jewish families had begun arriving in the hamlet in the late 1910s, and many local farmhouses turned into boarding houses and hotels serving Jewish vacationers. A fledgling congregation bought the former garage parcel, and the Jewish Society of Lake Huntington was incorporated in 1938. Changes were minimal: the gambrel-roofed building kept its brick and stucco walls, and round-arched windows with colored glass and Star of David motifs now mark its religious use. Inside, a vestibule, sanctuary with ark and bimah, separate seating for women, a kitchen, and a second-floor rabbi's apartment follow the pattern of Catskills synagogues. It is one of about twenty surviving synagogues of its era in the region, and it is listed for its architecture and its role in the community's social history.","period_of_significance":"1936","architect_builder":"unknown (built by William Henry as an auto shop and garage)","architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals (described as Dutch Colonial style garage)","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"By the 1960s the synagogue no longer had a full-time congregation and held services only in summer; the form describes the building as retaining a high level of integrity.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:48.549678-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/09001087.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09001087/023b5a113f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09001087/023b5a113f-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Eddybrandy","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_lakehunting_jewish_center.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Eddybrandy</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_lakehunting_jewish_center.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75322377","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Center_of_Lake_Huntington","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6189750"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/sullivan-county/jewish-center-of-lake-huntington-09001087/"}