{"nrhp_refnum":"83001714","name":"Main Street School","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Main and S. Washington St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Port Washington","county":"Nassau County","state":"NY","lat":40.830718887000046,"lon":-73.69632185999995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-02-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick Georgian Revival school building at Main Street and South Washington Street in Port Washington, Nassau County, New York, completed in 1909 and enlarged in 1917. It sits on a 5.5-acre site on a hill overlooking Manhasset Harbor.","why_significant":"The nomination presents it as a distinguished, monumentally scaled example of early twentieth century Georgian Revival architecture and the most prominent civic landmark in a hamlet with no town hall of its own. It is the oldest extant school in Port Washington and has been tied to local education since 1909.","narrative":"Main Street School in Port Washington, New York, is a brick Georgian Revival school crowning the highest hill in the hamlet, overlooking Manhasset Harbor. Designed by local architects Frank Cornell and Ralph Dusinberre and built by Smull and Walsh, it was finished in 1909 after the newly consolidated school district bought a 5.5-acre site. The two-story building has stone detailing, a steep gable roof, five round-headed dormers and a cupola with four clock faces. Rapid population growth, driven by the arrival of the railroad and Northern Boulevard, soon crowded the classrooms, so Cornell added two three-story wings in 1917 that preserved the building's symmetry. It first served as the town's twelve-year school and later became an elementary school. Because Port Washington has no town hall, the building also acts as the community's most prominent civic landmark. It was listed for its architecture and its long role in local education.","period_of_significance":"1900-","architect_builder":"Ralph Dusinberre & Frank Cornell","architectural_style":"Georgian Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied and still in use as an elementary school and community educational and cultural center; condition listed as good and altered.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:41.375563-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/83001714.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83001714/e7ee58b2e3-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83001714/e7ee58b2e3-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Jim.henderson","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Main_Street_School_Port_Wash_jeh.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jim.henderson</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Main_Street_School_Port_Wash_jeh.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75319149","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Street_School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6736168"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/nassau-county/main-street-school-83001714/"}