{"nrhp_refnum":"12000513","name":"Pine Hill Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Main, Academy, Elm, & Mill Sts., Bonnieview Ave., Pine Hill, Salomone, Station, & Old Turnpike Rds.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Pine Hill","county":"Ulster County","state":"NY","lat":42.13466033600005,"lon":-74.48001151502527,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2012-08-14","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Entertainment/Recreation"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district covering the hamlet of Pine Hill in the Town of Shandaken, Ulster County, New York, in the Catskill Mountains. It holds 131 contributing and 24 noncontributing resources, mostly wood-frame buildings from 1800 to 1962.","why_significant":"The district documents Pine Hill's development, especially the resort era of 1870-1920 that followed the arrival of the Ulster & Delaware Railroad in 1871. It contains an unusual number of hotels, boarding houses, commercial buildings and residences in picturesque Victorian styles typical of Catskill resort architecture. The nomination says the hamlet keeps an extraordinary state of integrity.","narrative":"Pine Hill is a small, dense and walkable hamlet in the Catskill Mountains, at about 1,512 feet above sea level in the Town of Shandaken. The historic district covers its core as it grew between 1800 and 1962, and excludes the area east of the four-lane NY Route 28 built in 1960. Early growth followed a plank turnpike and the tanneries that used local hemlock bark. The greatest change came in 1871, when the Ulster & Delaware Railroad reached the hamlet and a tourist boom began. Hotels, boarding houses and summer homes were built in Gothic Revival, Italianate, Second Empire, Stick and Queen Anne styles. Most are two or three stories of wood-frame construction. Main Street holds the commercial buildings, including the Italianate Colonial Inn, once called Glen Hall, while Academy Street and other side streets are lined with Gothic Revival houses. The district was listed for the way these buildings together show the character of a late 19th-century Catskill resort village.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Mid-19th century (Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, Stick Style); Late Victorian (Italianate, Second Empire, Queen Anne); Colonial Revival and Classical Revival; Bungalow/Craftsman","criteria":[],"status_note":"Current functions include dwellings, a hotel, shops, offices, restaurants, a library and a community center. The former Methodist church is now a private residence.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:48.331748-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/12000513.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/12000513/ac18f3f843-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/12000513/ac18f3f843-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Daniel Case","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Downtown_Pine_Hill,_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:Downtown_Pine_Hill,_NY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75322707","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_Hill_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23091999"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/ulster-county/pine-hill-historic-district-12000513/"}