{"nrhp_refnum":"85002588","name":"Old Town Hall Historic District","other_names":["See Also:Fort Golgatha and the Old Burial Hill Cemetery"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Main St. & Nassau Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Huntington","county":"Suffolk County","state":"NY","lat":40.871630449000065,"lon":-73.42341090999997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1985-09-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Exploration/Settlement","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A five-acre historic district on a hilltop called \"town hill\" in the village of Huntington, Suffolk County, New York, containing ten contributing elements (eight buildings and two sites) dating from the 1600s to 1910, plus one modern non-contributing commercial building.","why_significant":"The district is argued to be the turn-of-the-century civic and residential core of Huntington and holds the largest collection of architect-designed, high-style buildings in the multiple resource area. It also includes the Old Burying Ground and Fort Golgotha site, tied to the 1653 settlement and the Revolutionary War, and an 1837 Greek Revival church. Together the properties show Huntington's changing architectural styles and development from the mid-seventeenth to early twentieth century.","narrative":"Huntington's civic heart sits on a hill known as \"town hill,\" just east of the central business district. This five-acre district gathers ten contributing resources: eight buildings and two sites, spanning the 1653 settlement to the early twentieth century. At its center is the Old Burying Ground, which holds eighteenth and nineteenth-century sandstone and slate gravestones and the site of Fort Golgotha, a British fort built in 1782. Nearby are the 1837 Greek Revival Universalist Church, now a Daughters of the American Revolution chapter house, and three Queen Anne houses from about 1885 to 1895. Two Tudor Revival buildings by the New York firm Cady, Berg and See, the 1892 Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Building and the c.1900 Sewing and Trade School, stand close to the 1910 Neoclassical Town Hall designed by Julian Peabody. Together they form the largest collection of architect-designed buildings in the surrounding resource area and document the town's growth and prosperity.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Cady, Berg and See (Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Building, Sewing and Trade School); Julian Peabody (Town Hall, 1910); Lefferts, Jarvis and Conklin (Stewart House)","architectural_style":"Greek Revival, Queen Anne, Tudor Revival, Neoclassical","criteria":[],"status_note":"The Universalist Church now serves as a Daughters of the American Revolution chapter house; the Old Burying Ground was last used for burial in 1948 and is fenced and maintained by the town; the building list describes a rear annex added to the former Town Hall in 1980.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.180848-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/85002588.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85002588/e845c7db61-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85002588/e845c7db61-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"DanTD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_Huntington,_New_York_Town_Hall-2.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">DanTD</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:Old_Huntington,_New_York_Town_Hall-2.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75314895","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Town_Hall_Historic_District_(Huntington,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7085287"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/suffolk-county/old-town-hall-historic-district-85002588/"}