{"nrhp_refnum":"79001634","name":"Grahamsville Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"NY 55","address_restricted":false,"city":"Grahamsville","county":"Sullivan County","state":"NY","lat":41.846023276500034,"lon":-74.53731290625385,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-12-06","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Landscape Architecture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A district of six properties on about twenty acres at the eastern edge of the hamlet of Grahamsville, Sullivan County, New York, divided by Route 55. It includes three residences, a former store, a rural cemetery, and a Reformed Church with its hall, built between the 1820s and 1935.","why_significant":"The nomination argues that the district is a cohesive group of buildings and landscape reflecting the short-lived mid-nineteenth-century prosperity of a remote Catskills area. Each property illustrates a style: Greek Revival, Gothic cottage, Italian villa, a plain white country church, a picturesque rural cemetery, and a Greek Revival commercial building. It is described as a rare survival of stylish nineteenth-century design.","narrative":"Along Route 55 at the eastern edge of Grahamsville, six properties form a small district that records the brief prosperity of a remote Catskills hamlet. Three large houses stand on the north side: the Greek Revival Marenius Dayton House of the 1820s, once an inn and stagecoach stop; a Gothic Revival cottage built in 1857 by tanner Judge Stoddard Hammond; and an Italianate house built by the Southwick family in the 1880s. Across the road are the former Tannery Store, a modest Greek Revival commercial building now a dwelling, the terraced Grahamsville Rural Cemetery laid out after 1874 in a picturesque style, and the white clapboard Reformed Church of 1882 with its 1935 Memorial Hall. Lumbering and tanning financed much of this building. Modern housing, a reservoir, and a declining village center now surround the group, yet the district remains a cohesive survival of nineteenth-century design.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, Italianate","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition is listed as good, with some alterations to individual buildings. The district is described as intact and retaining its historic character. Properties are occupied.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:38.908294-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/79001634.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79001634/1115a6ae2f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79001634/1115a6ae2f-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Daniel Case","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grahamsville,_NY,_church_and_rural_cemetery.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Daniel Case</a>, <a href=\"http://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:Grahamsville,_NY,_church_and_rural_cemetery.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75322365","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grahamsville_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5593441"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/sullivan-county/grahamsville-historic-district-79001634/"}