{"nrhp_refnum":"84002973","name":"Greenport Village Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Stirling Basin, Main, Monsell, 2nd, and Front Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Greenport","county":"Suffolk County","state":"NY","lat":41.105588970500065,"lon":-72.36312296810502,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-09-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Exploration/Settlement","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A large historic district in the incorporated village of Greenport, on the north fork of Long Island, Suffolk County, New York, made up of 264 mostly wood-frame residential and commercial buildings fanning out from the Main Street waterfront.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the district as the largest and most intact concentration of historic resources in the village, covering all periods of settlement from the mid-eighteenth century to the early twentieth century. It contains a wide range of Federal, Greek Revival, Italianate, Second Empire, Queen Anne and Colonial Revival buildings. The significance statement itself (Section 8) is not included in the supplied text.","narrative":"Greenport's historic district covers the heart of a Long Island north fork harbor village, roughly a hundred miles east of New York City. Its 264 buildings, mostly wood-frame homes and shops, fan out from the Main Street waterfront business area. The oldest houses, on Sterling Street, date from the mid-eighteenth century, while lower Main Street holds densely packed commercial buildings from the rapid growth of the mid-to-late nineteenth century, some with Italianate detailing. Middle and upper Main Street, Carpenter Street and First Street hold residences in Federal, Greek Revival, Italianate and Second Empire styles. Queen Anne and Colonial Revival houses and early bungalows mark the turn of the twentieth century, along with modest working-class duplexes built by local builder Jesse Reeve. The district was drawn around the largest and least altered group of historic buildings in the village, after a 1978 survey of structures over fifty years old. Areas to the west were left out because of extensive alteration.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Jesse Reeve (local architect/builder of duplexes on Ludlam Place); Hudson Corwin (builder of 912 Main)","architectural_style":"Federal, Greek Revival, Italianate, Second Empire, Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, bungalow, and vernacular Long Island frame","criteria":[],"status_note":"264 buildings: 254 contributing and ten non-contributing; condition is marked as fair, deteriorated, altered and unaltered in different parts; many buildings 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 02:50:42.967598-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/84002973.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84002973/9cc71ec028-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84002973/9cc71ec028-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Americasroof","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Greenport-historic.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Americasroof</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:Greenport-historic.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75322130","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenport_Village_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5604403"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/suffolk-county/greenport-village-historic-district-84002973/"}