{"nrhp_refnum":"75001179","name":"Tompkins Street Historic District","other_names":["See Also:Tompkins Street/Main Street H.D. (Boundary Increase"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Tompkins and intersecting streets from Main St. to Cortland Rural Cemetery","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cortland","county":"Cortland County","state":"NY","lat":42.595296684500056,"lon":-76.18630033149363,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1975-03-18","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Commerce"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district in Cortland, Cortland County, New York, centered on Tompkins Street and its intersecting streets from Main Street to the Cortland Rural Cemetery. It has about 49 structures, mostly residences from the early 19th to the 20th century, plus Main Street commercial blocks.","why_significant":"The varied architecture of Tompkins Street shows the stages of Cortland's growth, from a sparsely populated rural setting to a prosperous commercial and industrial center after the Civil War. Wealthy manufacturers and professionals built large, stylistically varied homes there, including members of the Fitzgerald-Wickwire family. The district also preserves the Randall family properties tied to early merchant activity.","narrative":"Tompkins Street in Cortland, New York, anchors a district of about 49 structures running from Main Street to the Cortland Rural Cemetery. Quiet residences line the street, ranging from simple frame houses to the mansions of leading families, in styles from Italian-inspired to shingle style. The oldest house, built in 1808 and rebuilt in 1916, dates to the organization of Cortland County. On Main Street, three-story brick commercial blocks from the later nineteenth century include mansard-roofed and flat-roofed examples. The district reflects Cortland's growth after the county seat was chosen in 1810. Early construction on the street came with the Randall merchant family, whose stores dominated local trade for decades. After the Civil War, banks and vehicle manufacturing brought wealthy businessmen, who replaced older houses with larger homes. Manufacturers of wire cloth, the Fitzgerald-Wickwire family, were among them. Together the buildings show the village's change from a rural settlement to an industrial center.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Wide variety of styles from the early 19th to the 20th century, including Italianate-inspired, shingle style, Victorian commercial vernacular, and colonial","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition is marked good and altered; some buildings on Tompkins Street have been unsympathetically remodeled. The district is occupied and in commercial and private residential use.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:38.614449-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/75001179.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75001179/c1d0f617e4-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75001179/c1d0f617e4-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Jerrye &amp; Roy Klotz, MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TOMPKINS_STREET-MAIN_STREET_HISTORIC_DISTRICT_-_CORTLAND_COUNTY.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jerrye &amp;amp; Roy Klotz, MD</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:TOMPKINS_STREET-MAIN_STREET_HISTORIC_DISTRICT_-_CORTLAND_COUNTY.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"82001116","name":"Tompkins Street/Main Street Historic District (Boundary Increase)","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/new-york/tompkins-street-main-street-historic-district-boundary-increase-82001116/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75317167","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tompkins_Street%E2%80%93Main_Street_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7820370"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/cortland-county/tompkins-street-historic-district-75001179/"}