{"nrhp_refnum":"83001800","name":"Liberty Street Historic District","other_names":["See Also:US Post Offices in New York State,1858-1943,TR"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly Liberty St. from E. Morris St. to Haverling St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Bath","county":"Steuben County","state":"NY","lat":42.33539285550003,"lon":-77.31820513183827,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-09-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Landscape Architecture","Commerce","Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district of 76 commercial, residential, ecclesiastical and civic buildings in the historic core of the village of Bath, Steuben County, New York, centered on Liberty Street and Pulteney Square. Buildings date from about 1819 to about 1930.","why_significant":"The district is argued to be an architecturally and historically significant concentration of buildings reflecting Bath's development from its 1793 settlement through its mid-19th-century prosperity as the Steuben County seat and a regional commercial center. It contains distinctive examples of Greek Revival, Romanesque Revival, Italianate, Gothic Revival, Queen Anne and Colonial Revival styles, along with works by notable architects.","narrative":"Liberty Street Historic District covers the historic core of Bath, a village in Steuben County, New York. It includes 76 commercial, residential, religious and civic buildings dating from about 1819 to about 1930. The southern anchor is Pulteney Square, a three-acre village green laid out in the 1793 town plan and home to the Greek Revival Steuben County Courthouse and the earliest surviving building in the village, part of the Balcom House. North of the square, attached brick rows from the 1860s to 1880s, many with corbelled cornices, line Liberty Street, including the cast-iron A.S. Howell Building. Churches by Jacob Wray Mould and Henry C. Dudley, early twentieth century civic buildings, and late nineteenth century houses in Queen Anne, Italianate and Gothic Revival styles extend the district north past Washington Park. Together they record the village's growth through the railroad era as the county seat and a commercial center for the surrounding farming region.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Henry S. Bennett; Jacob Wray Mould; Henry C. Dudley; Merwin Austin and J. Foster Warner; Palmer Rogers; Thomas Fogarty; James A. Wetmore; George Bartlett (cast-iron facade, A.S. Howell Building); Davison & Carpenter (builders)","architectural_style":"Greek Revival, Romanesque Revival, Italianate, Italian Villa, Gothic Revival, Queen Anne, Colonial Revival and Neoclassical","criteria":[],"status_note":"Seven non-contributing structures are included within the boundaries; the buildings remain in a mix of commercial, civic, religious and residential uses.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:42.972649-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/83001800.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83001800/e7351e8eca-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83001800/e7351e8eca-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Pubdog (talk)","credit_html":"Pubdog (talk), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Liberty_St_Historic_District_Bath_NY_Oct_09.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75314727","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Street_Historic_District_(Bath,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6541973"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/steuben-county/liberty-street-historic-district-83001800/"}