{"nrhp_refnum":"84002494","name":"Hamilton Village Historic District","other_names":["See Also:Smith, Adon, House"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly Kendrick Ave., Broad, Payne, Hamilton, Madison, Pleasant and Lewbanon Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Hamilton","county":"Madison County","state":"NY","lat":42.822786905000044,"lon":-75.54230091182492,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-09-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 56-acre historic district at the center and southern part of the village of Hamilton, Madison County, New York, radiating from the village park and containing 157 contributing properties, mostly residential, built between about 1797 and 1930.","why_significant":"The district is significant as the historic core of Hamilton, with well-preserved nineteenth and early twentieth century residences and a remarkably intact turn-of-the-century commercial district. Its buildings show a wide range of architectural styles with a high degree of integrity. Hamilton grew from an 1794 settlement into a mercantile and trading center serving southern Madison County's agricultural economy.","narrative":"Hamilton Village Historic District covers about 56 acres at the center and southern portion of the village of Hamilton, in Madison County, New York. Streets radiate from a triangular village park, and the 157 contributing properties are mostly houses, along with commercial blocks, churches and public buildings. Settled in 1794, Hamilton grew into a trading center for the surrounding farm economy. Early survivors include Elisha Payne's c1804 house and several Federal and Greek Revival residences. Later houses show Italianate, Second Empire, Gothic Revival and Queen Anne styles, while fraternity houses on lower Broad Street add Classical Revival, Colonial Revival and Tudor designs. Most of the brick commercial blocks rose after an 1895 fire destroyed the business center, designed by architects from Binghamton, Rochester and Utica, and they keep their turn-of-the-century scale. The Colgate Inn of 1925 sits at the head of the park. The district was chosen for its intact buildings, tree-lined streets and period carriage barns.","period_of_significance":"1804-1930","architect_builder":"various","architectural_style":"Federal, Greek Revival, Italianate, Second Empire, Gothic Revival, Queen Anne, Classical Revival, Colonial Revival, Tudor, and Romanesque commercial","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as well maintained and largely intact, with about eleven non-historic buildings; uses include residential, commercial, educational, religious and park.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:42.054235-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/84002494.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84002494/b164da5cbd-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84002494/b164da5cbd-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"Doug Kerr from Upstate New York","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hamilton_Village_Historic_District_May_09.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Doug Kerr from Upstate New York</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:Hamilton_Village_Historic_District_May_09.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75318716","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton_Village_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5645230"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/madison-county/hamilton-village-historic-district-84002494/"}