{"nrhp_refnum":"85001603","name":"East Williston Village Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by E. Williston Ave., Roslyn Rd., Atlanta Ave. and Village Green","address_restricted":false,"city":"East Williston","county":"Nassau County","state":"NY","lat":40.75792055800005,"lon":-73.63689719157483,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1985-07-18","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Exploration/Settlement","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district in the village of East Williston, Nassau County, New York, made up of the village's residential and commercial core along East Williston Avenue and around Station Plaza. It has 26 contributing buildings, built mostly between 1878 and 1925, on about 7 acres.","why_significant":"The nomination argues that the district is a cohesive, largely intact collection reflecting the village's settlement, architectural tastes and economic growth from the early nineteenth century to 1925. It holds locally interpreted late nineteenth and early twentieth century styles, a small commercial enclave by the railroad station, and a rare early nineteenth century Willis family farmhouse with farm outbuildings. The buildings recall the community's shift from an agricultural settlement to a prosperous suburban village around 1900.","narrative":"East Williston Village Historic District preserves the older center of a small Long Island village about twenty-five miles east of New York City. It covers roughly seven acres along East Williston Avenue and around Station Plaza, and includes houses, carriage barns, two frame commercial buildings, a brick railroad station, a 1925 Gothic Revival church and the Village Green Park. The oldest building is the Willis farmhouse, built in the early nineteenth century and doubled in size in the 1880s. Most other buildings date from 1878 to 1925 and are wood-frame houses with carved brackets, porches and decorative shingling in Italianate-influenced styles, plus two Colonial Revival houses. The district matters because it records how the arrival of the Long Island Railroad in the 1860s turned a farming settlement into a growing suburban village with industry, shops and homes. Dense modern housing now surrounds it, which makes the surviving historic core stand out.","period_of_significance":"c. 1800-1925","architect_builder":"Various","architectural_style":"Victorian Italianate and Gothic idioms, Eastlake, Colonial Revival, and Gothic Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"One non-contributing modern building, a village maintenance garage, stands in the district. The form lists most properties as in good or fair condition, and many houses have modern siding.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.816276-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/85001603.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85001603/44e5acd936-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85001603/44e5acd936-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Infrastorian","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Buildings_the_East_Williston_Village_Historic_District,_East_Williston,_NY_August_14,_2025.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Infrastorian</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:Buildings_the_East_Williston_Village_Historic_District,_East_Williston,_NY_August_14,_2025.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75319093","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Williston_Village_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5329686"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/nassau-county/east-williston-village-historic-district-85001603/"}