{"nrhp_refnum":"78001922","name":"Cambridge Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Irregular pattern along Main and S. Union Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cambridge","county":"Washington County","state":"NY","lat":43.023342908000046,"lon":-73.3860138244394,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1978-11-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district covering much of the village of Cambridge, Washington County, New York, centered on East and West Main Street, South Union Street and nearby streets. It contains about 240 primary structures, mostly 19th-century frame houses plus commercial, religious and industrial buildings.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the district as a well-preserved 19th-century village whose architecture is largely intact and well maintained. It includes about twenty Federal period residences, about sixty Greek Revival houses, and a range of later styles. Notable landmarks include the railroad station, the Old Opera House, the Cambridge Hotel, the Rice Mansion and a mill with a covered footbridge. The surviving text does not include the statement of significance.","narrative":"Cambridge is a village of about 1,800 people in lower Washington County, New York, laid out along the Owl Kill creek where three crossroads hamlets merged. Its historic district holds roughly 240 primary buildings, mostly frame houses on generous, shaded lots, with a commercial core of late 19th-century stores along Main Street. About twenty homes show Federal period character, including the Dorr-Randall house, and about sixty display Greek Revival pedimented gables and pilasters. Later styles appear in the Italianate Cambridge Hotel, the Second Empire house at 12 Broad Street, the Queen Anne house at 44 West Main, the Stick-style St. Luke's Church and the Classical Revival Rice Mansion. Other features include the railroad station, the Old Opera House, a print shop, a mill with a covered footbridge and a small cemetery. The architectural details of most buildings remain intact. Sixteen modern buildings are counted as intrusions, and 28 buildings are noted as possible individual nominations.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Mixed 19th-century village architecture: Federal, Greek Revival, Italianate, Second Empire, Queen Anne, Stick, Rural Gothic and Classical Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Most buildings are described as remarkably intact and well maintained; sixteen buildings are identified as intrusions, mostly on East and West Main Streets.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:38.503484-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/78001922.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78001922/b8a8ce6f63-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78001922/b8a8ce6f63-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Daniel Case","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hubbard_Hall,_Cambridge,_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:Hubbard_Hall,_Cambridge,_NY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75322820","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Historic_District_(Cambridge,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1028300"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/washington-county/cambridge-historic-district-78001922/"}