{"nrhp_refnum":"85002442","name":"Silver Lake Institute Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Wesley, Embury, Thompson, Haven, Lakeside & Lakeview Aves.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Silver Lake","county":"Wyoming County","state":"NY","lat":42.69922529300004,"lon":-78.02254669463963,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1985-09-19","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Religion"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district at Silver Lake in the town of Castile, Wyoming County, New York, covering the core of the Silver Lake Institute, a small summer resort and camp-meeting community on the eastern shore of the lake. Most buildings date from 1873 to 1930.","why_significant":"The district preserves a largely intact nineteenth-century Methodist-founded summer assembly community, with modest, finely crafted wood cottages arranged around the original assembly grove, now Burt Park. The text shows buildings from three phases of development, from Gothic Revival through Queen Anne and Eastlake to Colonial Revival and Bungalow. The form says the district retains a remarkable degree of integrity. The significance section is truncated, so only the context of revivalism and camp meetings is visible.","narrative":"Silver Lake Institute is a small summer community of about fifty acres on the eastern shore of Silver Lake in Wyoming County, New York. Several hundred small buildings, mostly cottages, sit on small lots along narrow lanes that converge on Burt Park, a grassy, tree-lined open space that was the original grove where assemblies were held. The historic district includes the park and 72 other properties, with 76 contributing components and one non-contributing building. Most were built between 1873 and 1930 in wood. The earliest cottages, from 1873 to 1885, are narrow gable-front frame buildings with porches and Gothic Revival details. A building boom in the late 1880s and 1890s brought Queen Anne and Eastlake ornament, and later cottages show Colonial Revival and Bungalow influence. Two institutional buildings, Stoody Memorial Hall and the Hoag Art Gallery, date from 1892 and 1895. The district was drawn to exclude heavily altered areas and retains its historic character as a secluded lakeside retreat.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Vernacular cottages with Gothic Revival, Queen Anne, Eastlake, Stick, Colonial Revival and Bungalow influences","criteria":[],"status_note":"Marked occupied; uses include private residence, museum and park; condition checked as excellent, good and fair.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.4581-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/85002442.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85002442/46d9952aec-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85002442/46d9952aec-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Pubdog","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Silver_Lake_Institute_Historic_District_Jul_11.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Pubdog</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Silver_Lake_Institute_Historic_District_Jul_11.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75323352","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Lake_Institute_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7516149"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/wyoming-county/silver-lake-institute-historic-district-85002442/"}