{"nrhp_refnum":"85002583","name":"Main Street Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cold Spring Harbor","county":"Suffolk County","state":"NY","lat":40.87170365800006,"lon":-73.45544958199997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1985-09-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Exploration/Settlement","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A largely residential historic district of about 8 acres along Main Street in the unincorporated village of Cold Spring Harbor, Town of Huntington, Suffolk County, New York. It holds 31 contributing buildings dating from about 1830 to about 1910.","why_significant":"The district is argued to be the intact historic core of Cold Spring Harbor, showing its growth from a whaling port to a late nineteenth century summer resort and then an affluent residential suburb. It includes settlement-period houses, two 1840s religious buildings, and the highly decorative \"Ship Captain's Row\" homes built by local ship captains. Its intact, tree-lined streetscape retains the look of a late nineteenth century village.","narrative":"Main Street in Cold Spring Harbor, on Long Island's north shore, forms a residential district of about 8 acres with 31 contributing buildings, most built between 1855 and 1890. The western end holds modest early nineteenth century houses with restrained Federal and Greek Revival details, built when whaling made the village prosper. Two churches from the 1840s, a Methodist Episcopal church and a Greek Revival Baptist chapel, also survive; the chapel is now a house. Farther east, eleven large homes known as Ship Captain's Row were built for retired whaling and coasting captains on lots sold by Moses Rogers. They display vergeboards, sawn woodwork and asymmetrical massing. The district also includes a 1907 Shingle and Queen Anne house and a c.1910 gatehouse modeled on a Gaspe fisherman's cottage. Together with tree-lined streets and generous lots, these buildings show how the village changed from a whaling port to a summer resort and then a wealthy suburb, and they keep its historic appearance.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Brown & VonBeren (architects of the C. O. Requa House, 1907)","architectural_style":"Federal, Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, Victorian eclectic/picturesque, Queen Anne and Shingle styles","criteria":[],"status_note":"The Baptist Chapel was converted to a residence around 1960 but retains architectural integrity; the district is described as intact and well maintained.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.69301-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/85002583.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85002583/3ce9a22fcd-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85002583/3ce9a22fcd-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:Methodist_Episcopal_Church_Cold_Spring_Harbor_NY_Feb_10.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:Methodist_Episcopal_Church_Cold_Spring_Harbor_NY_Feb_10.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75314897","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Street_Historic_District_(Cold_Spring_Harbor,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6736129"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/suffolk-county/main-street-historic-district-85002583/"}