{"nrhp_refnum":"78001911","name":"Montour Falls Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Main and Genesee Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Montour Falls","county":"Schuyler County","state":"NY","lat":42.344810312500044,"lon":-76.84932507483401,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1978-08-31","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Historic - Aboriginal","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 13-acre historic district at the foot of Chequaga Falls in Montour Falls (formerly Havana), Schuyler County, New York, containing 24 mid- and late-nineteenth-century buildings along Genesee, Main and South Streets.","why_significant":"The district is presented as a good example of community planning and architectural craftsmanship in small southern tier communities of the mid-1800s. Its focus is a complex of Greek Revival public buildings built in the 1850s and 1860s by Gillispie and Coreyell for Charles Cook, who founded the village's canal-era growth and fostered the creation of Schuyler County. Victorian houses on Genesee Street and associations with notable residents add to its value.","narrative":"Montour Falls Historic District occupies about 13 acres at the foot of Chequaga Falls in Schuyler County, New York. It holds 24 mid- and late-nineteenth-century buildings, centered on a group of Greek Revival public buildings on West Main Street known locally as the \"Glorious T.\" These include the former County Courthouse, now the Village Hall, the County Clerk's Office, the Sheriff's Office, the Memorial Library, St. Paul's Episcopal Church and the M&M Club, a former railroad hotel. Gillispie and Coreyell designed them in the 1850s and 1860s for Charles Cook, a canal contractor, entrepreneur and state senator who laid out the village and helped form Schuyler County in 1854. Genesee Street adds Greek Revival, Italian villa, shingle style and board-and-batten houses. The district was judged to illustrate community planning and craftsmanship in small southern tier towns, and it has no intrusions and only minor alterations.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Gillispie and Coreyell (also spelled Careyell in the form)","architectural_style":"Greek Revival (public buildings), with Italianate, Victorian, shingle style and vernacular houses","criteria":[],"status_note":"Marked occupied and in excellent condition; the form says there are no intrusions and only slight exterior alterations, though many interiors have been altered for twentieth century needs.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:39.579123-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/78001911.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78001911/e01a25aa96-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78001911/e01a25aa96-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"Doug Kerr from now in Binghamton, NY","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Montour_Falls_Historic_District_Mar_09.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Doug Kerr from now in Binghamton, NY</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:Montour_Falls_Historic_District_Mar_09.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75321803","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montour_Falls_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14706988"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/schuyler-county/montour-falls-historic-district-78001911/"}