{"nrhp_refnum":"11000593","name":"Johnson City Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Generally Corless Ave., Arch St., Main St., Lester Ave. & Helen Dr.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Johnson City","county":"Broome County","state":"NY","lat":42.115901874500054,"lon":-75.95287675902054,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2011-08-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Social History","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district of about eighty acres and twenty blocks in the core of Johnson City, Broome County, New York, centered on land platted in 1888 by the Lester Brothers Boot and Shoe Company. It holds 185 contributing resources, including factories, commercial blocks, churches, civic buildings and houses.","why_significant":"The district preserves the industrial, commercial, civic and residential core of a village shaped by the Lester Brothers company and its successor, the Endicott-Johnson Corporation. It contains former factories, company-built civic and recreational buildings, and a main street showing development from the late nineteenth century through the 1960s. The statement of significance was not included in the supplied text, so this reading relies on the description section.","narrative":"Johnson City's historic district covers roughly eighty acres and twenty blocks on the north side of the Susquehanna River in Broome County. Its core is the parcel the Lester Brothers Boot and Shoe Company platted in 1888, which later grew into the Endicott-Johnson Corporation. The district holds six former factory buildings, a company firehouse, a medical building, a recreation hall, the first Endicott-Johnson retail shoe store and churches built or endowed by the Johnson family. Main Street forms the commercial center, with two- and three-story brick blocks from the late nineteenth century beside one-story storefronts rebuilt after fires and during the 1950s and 1960s. Industrial buildings on Corliss Avenue include the 1916 Pioneer Annex, a reinforced concrete factory, and the 1926 Jigger Factory. The oldest building is a mid-nineteenth century farmhouse at 107 Main Street. The district was listed because it keeps the intact industrial, commercial, civic and residential character of a company-shaped village.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Truman I. Lacey (114 Main Street house, 1885); A.T. Lacey and Sons (East Branch Recreational Center, 1947)","architectural_style":"Various; examples include Italianate, Romanesque Revival, Gothic Revival, Colonial Revival and mid-twentieth century modern commercial","criteria":[],"status_note":"Mixed continuing uses including industry, commerce, housing, government, recreation and religion. One building at 242 Main Street is noted as vacant but virtually unchanged.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:47.83667-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/11000593.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/11000593/844eda63d2-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/11000593/844eda63d2-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"Doug Kerr","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Johnson_City_Historic_District_Feb_09.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Doug Kerr</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Johnson_City_Historic_District_Feb_09.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75316579","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson_City_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23091814"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/broome-county/johnson-city-historic-district-11000593/"}