{"nrhp_refnum":"73001274","name":"Sag Harbor Village District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Sag Harbor, Rysam, Hamilton, Marsden, Main and Long Island Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Sag Harbor","county":"Suffolk County","state":"NY","lat":40.998608510000054,"lon":-72.29542243581778,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1973-07-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A roughly 300-acre historic district covering the central core of the village of Sag Harbor, Suffolk County, New York, extending south from the waterfront along Main, Madison, Division and Hampton Streets. It contains buildings from the 18th and 19th centuries.","why_significant":"Sag Harbor was a whaling port that flourished in the first half of the 19th century and was the first U.S. Port of Entry in New York State, designated in 1788. The district is notable for the quantity and quality of its colonial, Federal and Greek Revival buildings, which are remarkably free of 20th-century intrusions. Its maritime and cultural links with New England give it a look unlike other New York communities.","narrative":"Sag Harbor Village District is a 300-acre area at the heart of the village on eastern Long Island, reaching south from the waterfront along Main, Madison, Division and Hampton Streets. Its buildings include 18th-century half houses, Federal dwellings, Greek Revival houses, and later Gothic Revival, Italianate and Victorian homes. Highlights include the temple-front Benjamin Huntting House, now a whaling museum, and the Egyptian Revival Whalers Presbyterian Church, both attributed to Minard LaFever. The village grew as a port, became the first U.S. Port of Entry in New York State in 1788, and ranked behind only New Bedford and Nantucket as a whaling port in the 1840s. Fires in 1817, 1845 and 1877 and the collapse of whaling brought decline, and a watch-case factory later sustained the economy. Because growth largely stopped around 1850, the village keeps an unusually intact streetscape of colonial and early 19th-century buildings.","period_of_significance":"18th and 19th centuries","architect_builder":"Minard LaFever (attributed, Benjamin Huntting House and Whalers Presbyterian Church); Benjamin Glover (carpenter-builder of the Glover House)","architectural_style":"Colonial, Federal, Greek Revival, Egyptian Revival, Gothic Revival, Italianate, Victorian","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition is marked good; the district is occupied and has mixed commercial, residential, religious, museum, industrial and educational uses.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:40.09731-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/73001274.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73001274/667419461d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73001274/667419461d-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"Doug Kerr from Albany, New York, United States","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sag_Harbor_Village_District_Dec_10.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Doug Kerr from Albany, New York, United States</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:Sag_Harbor_Village_District_Dec_10.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75322224","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sag_Harbor_Village_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7398869"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/suffolk-county/sag-harbor-village-district-73001274/"}